The swastika is an ancient symbol often used as an ornament or religious sighn. The swastika is the form of cross with the ends of the arms bent at right angles in a given direction, usually cloclwise. The swastika has been found on Byzantine buildings, Buddhist inscriptions, Celtic monuments, and Greek coins. Swastikas were widely used symbols among the Indians of North and South America. The clockwise swastika was adopted in 1920 as the symbol of the National Socialist Party of Germany. As such it came to be one of the most hated symbols in the history of humanity. It came to stand for all the evil associated with the Nazis as they gained control of Europe before and during World War ll. After the Allies defeated Germany in 1945, they banned the display of of the swastika emblem.
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