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Originally Posted by Gravitas
So there are similar designs. It doesn't invalidate my question. The Nazis still used that design, and that was the connotation salient in my mind. There's not much more to it than that. I'm far more used to seeing that symbol, in its current style, in conjunction with Nazis than America.
I do find it fairly odd though that America would take such a similar design for their emblem concurrent with the end of the war, though.
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Ill ask Gren to change the symbol to the swastika so we actualy have something to argue about.
Anyway, just because the Nazi's used a symbol does not make it theirs. Symbolism is not owned by any culture, its the herritage of human kind.
You dont cringe everytime you see a christian cross just because Hitler decided to paint a stylized version of it on the side of his Panzer tanks right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Cross