Originally Posted by Tokamak

Its a bit of a stretch back to gcse history, but the swastika is / was a pre christian hindu symbol. It can be displayed square or at an angle merely for reasons of aesthetics. Cant for the life of me remember which god it depicts, but facing right it represents the universes evolution and facing left it represents the universes involution (creation?).

The Nazi party pinched the swastika from early Indian culture and maried it with the indian caste system of the time to develop their idea of eugenics



And the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq didn't leap into mind when I read this....