@siddharthsharma5124

7 months ago

The correct question is how & why did the Nazi symbol change from being called the hooked cross ( Hakenkreuz ) that Hitler first saw in the Christian Monastery ( Lambach Abbey ) which he attended as a boy. He later adopted it as an emblem for his party. It is a common misconception that Hitler used the Swastika symbol. But Hitler himself never used the word "Swastika" to refer to his symbol. He called it “Hooked Cross”(“Haken Kreuz”).
There is no evidence that he ever heard of the word “Swastika”. Hooked Cross had been a sacred symbol of Christianity since its inception in ancient days and it is very natural to find the Hooked Cross symbol in old churches and chapels.
The hooked cross was seen as a Christian symbol in Nazi Germany.

From 1933 onwards, Catholic schoolchildren in Catholic schools of Nazi Germany were taught in their religious instruction about “the close affinity between Cross and Hooked Cross”.
You can find the images of the union of Cross and the Hooked Cross used by the Churches in the Nazi era.

Unfortunately, the hooked cross symbol was identified with Swastika and the antisemitism associated with the hooked cross has been falsely attributed to the name and symbol of swastika.

What led to the false association of the Christian Hooked Cross with the Hindu Swastika??

The English evangelists were opponents of Nazis and they tried to portray Hitler as a Pagan. The word Hooked Cross was conveniently translated as Swastika. When Hitler became extremely unpopular, the Evangelist lobby associated the Hooked Cross with Swastika to hide the fact that Nazism originated in Christian Socialism.

In his excellent research citing many examples of leading Nazis, Professor Richard Steigmann of Kent State unity proves that Nazism originated in a Christian frame of reference and understood their movement as a Christian movement. As he shows, Church Historians retrospectively tried to portray Nazism as a non-Christian moment and undermined the Christian roots of its antisemitism.

On the other hand, the symbol of SWASTIKA is a holy sign in Hinduism that implies something fortunate, lucky or auspicious and it denotes auspiciousness or well-being.
Swastika symbols are found right from the sacred Hindu scriptures such as Vedas & in the Indus Valley Civilization.

Swastika is also a sacred & holy symbol in other Indic faiths.
Hope this helps. 👍🏻

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