re: #285 SixDegrees

Hilter “poached” the swastika from Indian symbolism. I don’t think we can claim it influenced him.

Uh - no.

Uh, Yes. From your link:

The use of the swastika was associated by Nazi theorists with their conjecture of Aryan cultural descent of the German people. Following the Nordicist version of the Aryan invasion theory, the Nazis claimed that the early Aryans of India, from whose Vedic tradition the swastika sprang, were the prototypical white invaders. It was also widely believed that the Indian caste system had originated as a means to avoid racial mixing