Un article sur l’histoire de la #svastika qui date de 2000 :
▻http://www.nytimes.com/library/arts/072900tank-swastika.html
Before the Nazi party adopted the swastika and turned it into the most potent icon of racial hatred, it traveled the world as a good luck symbol. It was known in France, Germany, Britain, Scandinavia, China, Japan, India and the United States. Buddha’s footprints were said to be swastikas.
Navajo blankets were woven with swastikas. Synagogues in North Africa, Palestine and Hartford were built with swastika mosaics.
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The swastika gets its name from the Sanskrit word svastika, meaning well-being and good fortune.
The earliest known swastikas date from 2500 or 3000 B.C. in India and in Central Asia.
Via ►http://www.slate.fr/story/117385/guerre-racisme-troupes-noires
