"Whose Swazticka"

[Keith]

The Badges shown are the original RWVS badge for 1914/18
The second badge is the lapel identidy badge for British National Savings Collectors, same period.
Try next post for smaller picture!

[Keith]

Smaller picture!

[Kyt]

It is interesting to see how common the Swastika was before the Nazis usurped it. It was even used as an emblem for a US division:

45th INFANTRY DIVISION & LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE AMERICAINE & the swastika of the Sooner Soldiers influence on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR's swastika, Fascism Nazism, Socialism, Communism Stalin Hitler Mao 45th Infantry http://rexcurry

[liverpool annie]

Originally Posted by Keith

Smaller picture!

Do you collect badges Keith ?

During World War I - the swastika was used as the emblem of the British National War Savings Committee ...... wonder if you got one for each savings bond you bought ? .... wonder how many people wore them ?

Annie

[Keith]

Originally Posted by liverpool annie

Do you collect badges Keith ?

During World War I - the swastika was used as the emblem of the British National War Savings Committee ...... wonder if you got one for each savings bond you bought ? .... wonder how many people wore them ?

Annie

Hi Annie,
I started collecting badges a long time ago.
I had 4 biscuit tins of them in the garage, doing nothing so I listed them and offered then on the net.
Britania Medals of Kendal bought them with a few medals that I had.
I got a very good price, but I lost a lot of memories.

I have a few bits and pieces still around, but nothing like the collection I had, but my daughter needed a new car!
Have a lovely New Year
Cheers
Keith

[Keith]

Originally Posted by Kyt

It is interesting to see how common the Swastika was before the Nazis usurped it. It was even used as an emblem for a US division:

45th INFANTRY DIVISION & LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE AMERICAINE & the swastika of the Sooner Soldiers influence on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR's swastika, Fascism Nazism, Socialism, Communism Stalin Hitler Mao 45th Infantry http://rexcurry

Hi Kyt,
That is some list.
I knew of the Finnish Air Force and a couple of the others but I mean 2 or 3.
At one time I think it was mentioned as being a good luck emblem of the Indian Continent.

Glad to be back but I have been tied up listing my batch of reference books on the computer.

After all the highly detailed account of each and every pilot, (in each and every sortie of Baders command, which grew to three squadrons,) which tended to be heavy reading and and after a while boring, the man was shot down got a new leg, made himself a nuisance to his captors, not always to the liking of his fellow internees, who suffered a bit because of it, then freed in the matter of about a dozen pages.
He has just got back to England which I will continue with later.

Cheers
Keith.

[Kitty]

Isn't the swastika a Hindu symbol for luck? or am I dreaming something I heard as a child.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by Kitty

Isn't the swastika a Hindu symbol for luck? or am I dreaming something I heard as a child.

Hi Kitty,
I think we must have shared the same dream,
Somehow I have a feeling that the legs of the cross were in the opposite direction.
See you in my dreams
Cheers
Keith

[Kitty]

yes they were opposite direction to the symbol used by the nazis. Was very popular in the 20's.

[Jerome]

I have seen both varieties of swaztikas at hindu services here and it was explained to me by the Pundits that it matters not how the arms are arranged (since both designs are used) but rather that the hindu symbol is oriented vertically whilst the nazi symbol is oriented diagonally