Nazi symbology

[druiaghtagh]

 What was the Nazis fascination with al the symbology od flags , swastikas etc please?

[dave_c]

Quick answer I'd let someone else go into it more further detail. I would suppose it's the Nazi's fascination with the old Roman Empire as well as the occult and the fake/tampered Nordic/Germanic Mythology claiming to give their (false) right to a superace....But most importantly spin and image is imperative towards Nazi propaganda giving the illusion of Grandeur.

The swastika was a sign of power through ancient indigenious civilisations, way before the Nazi's plaguarised it, heres some more scope:

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm

And the correct term for 'Aryan'? Look it up in the dictionary, has a slant of irony.

[simms]

It shows the skill of HItler and his entourage at tapping into the spirit of the time: people were at that time fascinated (as now) by ancient cultures and excavations in Europe, India and Iraq were bringing out objects with these ancient symbols on them. At the same time advertising and marketing were blooming: Hitler made use of his own ideas as an artist to source graphics which made an impact for the 'Nazi brand', if you will.He used these graphics and logos to imply to as suggestible population (ie people like us) that his proposed thousand-year Reich was the rightful successor to past great Empires such as Rome.

[druiaghtagh]

Thankyou both for such prompt and full answers.

[Clanad]

To adequately understand the nature of Naziism one would have to understand its extreme occult connection.  This is especially demonstrated in the adoption of the Runic tradition that was evident in most of the symbols used by the Nazis.  There are excellent histories that describe the origin of Runes and their use in the development of their super race theories and practices that resulted in the destruction of millions of human beings...Google any combination of Nazi, occult and Runes...

[bernardo]

The philosophy of Nazism (and dictatorship in general) is that theatrical displays which stir up emotions by using colour and flags and music and symbols (and the myths which they represent) are a more effective way of stimulating feelings of well-being and loyalty (and a sense of being part of a collective community) than reasoned debate or rational explanations.

[LitChick]

I found out a while back that the swatstika originated in early Celtic civilisations as the symbol of a deity, as in absolute power -- probably the reason Hitler chose it.

[Octavius]

In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler claimed that the form in which the Nazis used the swastika was based on a design by Dr. Friedrich Krohn, a dentist who had belonged to several V�lkisch groups, including the Germanen Order.

Krohn, a dentist from Starnberg, submitted his design of a flag which had been used at the founding meeting of his own party local: a swastika against a black-white-red background. The swastika, for a long time a symbol of the Teutonic Knights, had been in use by Lanz von Liebenfels, the Thule Society and a number of Freikorps units which are all offshots of the loosely organized Germanische Glaubensgemeinschaft (Community for German Beliefs), which had been founded in 1907 by Professor Ludwig Fahrenkrog of Barmen following pseudo-Masonic lines.

Hitler gives his own account: "Actually, a dentist from Starnberg did deliver a design that was not bad after all, and, incidentally, was quite close to my own, having only the one fault that a swastika with curved legs was composed into a white disk."

Krohn knew that the Buddhist destroverse or clockwise swastika symbolized good fortune and well being, and made his design accordingly, with the swastika's legs pointing to the left.

The majority of the Nazi leaders accepted Krohn's design, but Hitler insisted on a sinistroverse or anti-clockwise one and changed the design accordingly.