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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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.
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.