Nazi germany and the swastika
The swastika was a symbol that was in use a long time before Hitler had decided to make a Nazi flag out of it. Originally, the swastika is a very sacred symbol in Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism, meaning life and good luck. In the 1900s, Hitler had decided that the Nazi party needed a symbol for themselves, a flag. In the Nazi flag, he chose to represent red for social idea of the movement, the white to represent the nationalistic idea and the swastika to represent the victory of the Aryan man--as said in Mein Kampf. The swastika, a good symbol used by many for good life and fortune, had been turned into a symbol of hatred, genocide, death by the Nazi party. Many people, when seeing a swastika, think of the Nazi party and Hitler, and many do not know the true meaning of a swastika. This goes to show that what Hitler and the Nazis had done had been so effective that it had overrun the essential meaning of a swastika and left such an impression that many people do not know both meanings of a swastika.