On Sunday, September 23, 2007 at 10:21:59 AM UTC-4, "Stop the Pledge of Allegiance" wrote:
> Many people overuse the word "Nazi" because they do not know the actual name
> of the group: the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSGWP). Other
> people overuse the shorthand term to deliberately cover-up the group's
> actual name, in order to rehabilitate socialism. Most people do not know
> that "Nazis" did not call themselves "Nazis" (they called themselves
> socialists). The same people are unaware that German socialists did not call
> their symbol a "swastika." They perpetuate two more myths: (1) That the
> swastika, as an ancient symbol and as a Sanskrit word, represented the
> opposite of German socialism; (2) That "Aryan," in the ancient Sanskrit
> sense, had no true relevance to German socialists.
> http://rexcurry.net/swastika.html
> The ancient term "swastika" is often translated as "good luck" or "well
> being" or "auspicious." The symbologist and etymologist Dr. Rex Curry has
> pointed out that the Sanskrit concept of "good luck" fit the National
> Socialist view (and every socialist's view, even today) of socialism.
>
> And the ancient swastika concept included socialist ideas. Although the word
> "socialism" is modern, socialistic concepts have been around since the dawn
> of mankind, causing shortages, poverty, misery and death. That was the case
> in India and the rest of Asia, and is still the case today there, and
> worldwide.
>
> "Swastika" and "Aryan" were conceptually related in Sanskrit, long before
> the NSGWP existed. People who oversimplify "swastika" as "good luck" also
> oversimplify the word "Aryan." In Sanskrit, "Swastika" had a similar meaning
> to the word "Aryan," because both included the sense of "fortunate" or
> "favored" as in a favored person, who belonged to a fortunate caste, class,
> or race. "Aryan" is probably related to the aristoi, the "most noble," of
> Greece (Aristotle, aristocracy, aristocrat). The related concept of "arch"
> creates nouns that signify people and groups having authority over others of
> their class (archbishop; archdiocese; archangel; archenemy, archrival) or
> "exemplary" (archetype). Aryan probably included "accomplished, skillful."
> The original meaning of the root, pertaining to "skillful assembly" or
> "union" might be seen in Latin ars "art," and "architect" and ordo
> ("order"). The term "Aryan" is related to the word "Iranian" (Iran or
> Persia).
>
> Professor Curry has shown that the Sanskrit term "swastika" did not merely
> mean "good luck" in the modern sense (as is often said). For the higher
> classes (and for those who dreamed or aspired) the symbol meant that it was
> "good luck" to be in a high caste / race and not a low class / race (it is
> sad to note that the high class was sometimes interpreted as the "Aryan
> class"). In that way, the sanskrit concept is not dis-similar from the
> German socialist use.
>
> Similar to the German symbol, the ancient swastika consisted of two crossed
> S-shapes and was drawn as two overlapping S-shapes. German socialists did
> not call their symbol a "swastika," but called it a "hakenkreuz" (hooked
> cross), because it also consisted of two crossed S-shapes. Etymologists
> indicate that in ancient Sanskrit "swastika" combined and used two S-sounds,
> similar to the modern word "swastika." Edwin W. Fay wrote in "The American
> Journal of Philology" the article "Derivatives of the Root Stha in
> Composition" and stated "...Skr. [Sanskrit] svasti-s may be for
> *sva-st(h)i-s..." (The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 33, No. 4 (1912),
> pp. 377-400). Other etymologies state "from Skt. svastika-s, lit. "being
> fortunate," from svasti-s "well-being, luck," from su- "well" + as-, root of
> asti "(he) is," from root of L. esse "to be" (see essence)." That etymology
> even leads to the "esse" sound.
>
> It is often said that German National Socialists altered (and ruined) the
> "good luck" meaning of the symbol from its history in India and the rest of
> Asia. That leaves a lot out of the whole story.
> http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html
>
> If swastikas had "Aryan" etymology in the minds of German socialists, it
> included a common dictionary's second meaning: "noble" or "high rank." They
> used it to mean a "master race" or "noble class" or "ruling class." The
> swastika became an emblem for the cockamamy "super socialist man" or "new
> socialist man."
> http://rexcurry.net/george-bernard-shaw-superman-socialist-swastika-socialism.html
>
> The swastika was sometimes used as alphabetical symbolism of overlapping
> S-letters for "socialism" under the National Socialist German Workers Party.
> It was turned 45 degrees to the horizontal (to highlight the S-letters) and
> oriented in the S-direction.
> http://rexcurry.net/swastika3swastika.jpg
>
> In that way, the swastika did not change from a good-luck symbol for German
> socialists and their admirers. But for some of the world, the symbol became
> a bad-luck symbol for "socialism."
> http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hakenkreuz-oxford-english-dictionary.html
>
> It is also consistent with India's historic socialism and, as a cosequence,
> its historic levels of poverty and misery.
>
> It is consistent with the dogma of a mystical India-Germany promoter of
> National Socialism known as Savitri Devi. Known as the "Aryan Hindu
> prophetess," she authored a lengthy examination of the Hindu theory of
> cyclical history that included Hitler was an avatar or god come to earth.
> Born Maximiani Portas, she became a strong admirer of Hitler in the 1920s,
> moved to India in 1932 because of its caste segregation system, and took a
> Hindu name. Later, her writings were republished, and she gained new fans in
> the 1970s as new interest in National Socialism spread. Devi died in 1982,
> but the author boasted that her combination of Hindu religion and Nordic
> racial ideology became a bridge between National Socialism and the New Age
> movements. It was not the culture of India that drew Devi, but her belief
> that India represented the best of racial segregation. Once in India, she
> became interested in Hinduism and wed the Brahman A.K. Mukherji in a
> marriage of shared ideals that also happened to bolster her shaky legal
> status as a resident sympathizer with German National Socialism.
>
> And there are older consistencies with the dogma of another mystical
> India-Germany promoter of National Socialism known as Madam Blavatsky of the
> Theosophical Society (established 1875 in New York). The TS dogma included
> oddball theories about superior races, superior societies, a "Great White
> Brotherhood" of masters, sub races, and seven primary root races, including
> the "Aryan" race, which Blavatsky described as superior to some other
> "races."
>
> In 1888, Blavatsky's group joined with the American National Socialist
> Edward Bellamy and his Bellamy Clubs (Nationalist Clubs) to work for
> socialism. Edward Bellamy was the author of "Looking Backward" (1888) an
> international bestseller known as the bible of National Socialism, and
> translated into every major language (including German, Russian and
> Chinese). Edward Bellamy was cousin to Francis Bellamy, author of the
> "Pledge of Allegiance" (1892) the origin of the stiff-arm salute (the early
> salute to the Pledge), later adopted by the National Socialist German
> Workers Party.
> http://rexcurry.net/roman-salute-oxford-english-dictionary.html
>
> The Bellamys wanted government to take over all schools in order to impose
> their "military socialism." When the government granted their wish the
> socialist schools imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official
> policy. It was a bad example for decades before the NSGWP was formed, and it
> even outlasted the NSGWP by more than a decade.
> http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg
>
> During the time that the American National Socialist Edward Bellamy worked
> with Blavatsky, she and the Theosophical Society used a swastika symbol.
> Thus the swastika's association with socialism began in the USA three
> decades before it was used by the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
> http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
>
> The version of the swastika symbol adopted by German socialists is the same
> swastika used in Blavatsky's symbolic brooch.
> http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-blavatsky-brooch.gif
>
> Before and after Bellamy's book, Blavatsky continued to promote socialism in
> Germany, India and worldwide. At the time this was written, the Theosophical
> Society of America (TSA) continued to maintain its Springfield Branch office
> at the Edward Bellamy House, 93 Church Street, Chicopee, MA and also its
> library.
> http://rexcurry.net/theosophy-madame-blavatsky-theosophical-society.html
>
> That utopian socialism is consistent with Bellamy dogma and with the
> totalitarian societies of the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust
> was a part): ~60 million slaughtered under the Union of Soviet Socialist
> Republics; ~50 million under the Peoples' Republic of China; ~20 million
> under the National Socialist German Workers Party. In 1939, the National
> Socialist German Workers Party joined as allies with the Union of Soviet
> Socialist Republics to invade Poland in a pact to divide up Europe,
> spreading WWII. Even after German socialism was defeated, Soviet socialists
> continued to pursue their part of the pact they had made with German
> socialists. Socialists in the USSR and in China went on to kill even more
> millions of people.
> ********************
> The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) supports Dr. Curry's discovery that the
> swastika was used by the Nazi Party to symbolize meshed "S" letters for
> "socialism."
> http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hakenkreuz-oxford-english-dictionary.html
>
> The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) also supports Dr. Curry's discovery that
> the "ancient Roman salute" is a myth and that the myth arose from the early
> stiff-arm salute of the USA's Pledge of Allegiance.
> http://rexcurry.net/roman-salute-oxford-english-dictionary.html
>
> Wikipedia is helping to announce the new discoveries. Opinion Editorials
> reported on the many references to Dr. Curry's research on Wikipedia. It
> might be the most referenced historical work of its kind on Wikipedia.
> Wikipedia writers have reviewed and verified the research. Some Wikipedia
> writers use it without attribution in apparent attempts to bolster their own
> credibility. http://rexcurry.net/crypto-cryptography-cryptology.html
> Read about the Cryptologist Dr. Rex Curry on Brazilian Integralism and the
> Brazilian Integralist Action Party
> http://rexcurry.net/swastika-brazilian-integralist-action-aib-greek-sigma..html
>
> *********************
Hitler did not call his symbol a "Swastika." Also Hitler NEVER self-identified as a "Fascist" nor "Nazi." There was no "Nazi Party." YouTube videos are wrong about almost everything. Why is everyone so ignorant?

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