nwtree.blogg.se - Red white and black flag

It would be inconsistent with the nationalist part of the ideology, I think. If these people use symbols reminding of their ideological idols, why don't they say so? There sure don't hide their intentions in other situations… Saying "our symbol looks like a swastika out of a coincidence, as it was originally designed by my mother-in-law's cat" is being plain coward - something Neo-Nazis don't like to be called at…

This symbol is "hurricane," then? Yeah, as much as South Africa's AWB three-legged swastika was based on the number "777," and similar explanations.

are clearly influenced by Hitler and Mussolini and based on them - however the "official" explanations refer most everything except that fact. The texts about this symbol illustrate quite well the interesting phenomenon of Neo-Nazi symbology worldwide: The flags, symbols, salutes, etc. (I recall maps in Japan being marked with swastikas to indicate Buddhist temples. Indeed, the swastika itself now has a meaning that no Buddhist would put on it, it being found often in their iconography and elsewhere. The German Nazis were absolute masters of this if they were just another political party, their flags would be considered works of art. Tyrants, with their devotion to "bread and circuses," are often masters of manipulation, including symbols. I think these are mostly beautiful flags, though politically, I strongly oppose what they stand for.

Flags that somehow have the same symbols and/or design as any of 1-3 above, but which have no intentional connection with their movements.

Usually found in political cartoons, protest rallies, etc.

Protest flags loosely based on 1-3 above, adding to its typical design or symbols the design or symbols of the flag or emblem of some other entity, usually to convey the accusation that the said entity is somehow comparable to Nazi regimes.

Mockery or "atmosphere setting" flags, loosely based on any of the above, usually used in works of fiction, theme decoration or satire.

Some of these flags are indeed (actual or intended) copies of types 1 and 2 above.

Post-war flags of political organizations somehow sympathetic with the Nazi regime and world view.

Most of them disappeared during or after WWII.

Flags of foreign (non-German) entities (national and party flags), more or less sympathetic with Hitler's and Mussolini's regimes, inspired in their symbolics, design and aesthetics.

Original Nazi German flags, some newly created in 1933 and later, according to "fascist" graphical principles (in the original meaning of that word), others more or less inherited from pre-1933 german flags.

As in many countries it is forbidden to use fascist or Nazist symbols, they use new symbols reminescent of swastika.Īll these are flags resembling the German flag of 1933-1945. The scheme is always the same: red background, a white circle in the middle and a black symbol.