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Swastika

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An irregular Icosagon, also called the gammadion or fylfot, which symbolized good luck in ancient Arabic and Indian cultures. In more recent times, it was adopted as the symbol of the Nazi Party in Hitler's Germany and has thence come to symbolize anti-Semitism.

See also Cross, Dissection




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1999-05-26