[ noun ] the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction <noun.communication>
Swastika \Swas"ti*ka\, Swastica \Swas"ti*ca\, n. [Also {suastica}, {svastika}, etc.] [Skr. svastika, fr. svasti walfare; su well + asti being.] A symbol or ornament in the form of a Greek cross with the ends of the arms at right angles all in the same direction, and each prolonged to the height of the parallel arm of the cross. A great many modified forms exist, ogee and volute as well as rectilinear, while various decorative designs, as Greek fret or meander, are derived from or closely associated with it. The swastika is found in remains from the Bronze Age in various parts of Europe, esp. at Hissarlik (Troy), and was in frequent use as late as the 10th century. It is found in ancient Persia, in India, where both Jains and Buddhists used (or still use) it as religious symbol, in China and Japan, and among Indian tribes of North, Central, and South America. It is usually thought to be a charm, talisman, or religious token, esp. a sign of good luck or benediction. Max M["u]Ller distinguished from the swastika, with arms prolonged to the right, the {suavastika}, with arms prolonged to the left, but this distinction is not commonly recognized. Other names for the swastika are {fylfot} and {gammadion}.
Note: The swastika with arms bent to the right came to be used used as a symbol of Aryan supremacy by the Nazi party in Germany, 1933 - 1945; hence, it is now associated in the United States and European countries with Nazism or antisemitism. It is sometimes used by neo-nazis, or by antisemites as an antisemitic symbol. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Fyllot \Fyl"lot\, n. [Prov. fr. AS. fy?erf?te, fierf?te, fe['o]werf?te. See {Four}, and {Foot}, n.] A rebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called {gammadion}, and {swastika}.
The six wore anti-Nazi emblems and some had jackets displaying a swastika being destroyed by a fist.
Another was followed home and had a swastika carved on the top of her hand with a razor blade.
A Jewish visitor complained when he saw the flags, which contain a swastika, the military spokeswoman, Lt.
Three suspected neo-Nazis in Halle, eastern Germany, carved a swastika on the face of a girl in a wheelchair after she refused to shout fascist slogans.
Surprise, surprise: the hero, PC Mullens (Bill Paterson) writes it off in the next scene. The story starts when the corpse of a kosher butcher is pulled from a canal in his Volvo, a swastika daubed on the bonnet.
"We're not going to see the old signs, like the Nazi swastika or the burning cross any more," he said.
The swastika was the emblem of Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party.
A Tokyo fad a few years ago was collecting items bearing the swastika and other Nazi symbols.
"Most of the Nazi symbols were spray-painted or drawn with markers, but one swastika on the woman's living room wall was drawn with the victim's blood," Ms. Howard said.
A short time later, the elder Kowalski went to Zucarino's apartment, where he confronted him about the swastika and grabbed him by the throat, police said.
Those included charges that he was involved in a scheme to sell shares of a non-existent gold mine and an incident in a San Francisco airport bathroom, in which he claimed he was attacked by skinheads and a Nazi swastika was painted on his face.
Four months ago, someone painted a small, rusty-red swastika on a stone pillar a few steps from the Israeli ambassador's home.
A crowd of 500 people gathered on the street below, singing nationalist songs and carrying the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union merged with the Nazi swastika.
When Germany hoisted the swastika there in November 1941, at the end of its long advance, the photos flashed round the world.
The investigator said the symbols are not correct depictions of the Nazi swastika.
Not one hammer-and-sickle was present _ except on a placard that showed the Communist symbol evolving into a swastika with the skulls of the dead below it.
The reputed leader of a Chicago-area group called the Skinheads and five other alleged white supremacists were indicted Friday for attacking a woman and drawing a swastika on her wall with her blood.
"I'm about as smart as a box of rocks," Paster, whose left arm is adorned with a large tattoo of a swastika with the word "Hero" written through it, said recently in a death row interview. "I'm not trying to justify any darn thing.