Cryptologist Dr. Rex Curry, Symbologist, Cryptography expert Professor
HAKENKREUZ - SWASTIKA : HOW IT CAME TO BE CALLED SWASTIKA
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Hakenkreuz, Fylfot, Swastika by Cryptologist Rex Curry, Symbologist and Cryptographer cryptology cryptography NAVA FOTW

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) supports Dr. Rex Curry's discovery that the swastika was used by the Nazi Party to symbolize meshed "S" letters for "socialism." Dr. Curry's work has been announced and verified on Wikipedia. http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hakenkreuz-oxford-english-dictionary.html 

Dr. Curry showed that the swastika, although an ancient symbol, was used sometimes by the National Socialist German Workers Party as alphabetic symbolism for their "socialism," as shown in the book "Swastika Secrets."  http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html  

The same symbolism is shown in Hitler’s own bizarre signature, which Hitler altered to use the same stylized "S" letter for "socialist"; in the fact that the NSGWP's symbol was turned 45 degrees to the horizontal and oriented in the S direction; and in similar alphabetic symbolism that still shows on Volkswagens. http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter4a1a2a.html

German National Socialists did not even refer to their symbol as a "swastika."  The OED has no example of Hitler nor any German National Socialist using the term "swastika."

German National Socialists used the term "Hakenkreuz."  The oldest OED reference for the symbol of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party is “Hakenkreuz,” not “swastika.”  That is to be distinguished from OED references for other general uses of "swastika" that are not in the context of referring to the symbol of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

The earliest OED reference for "Hakenkreuz" is a 1931 use in the Times (23 Dec. 7/4 A large Nazi Hakenkreuz flag, ‘which can be seen for miles’, flies from the tallest chimney). The next reference is in 1935 (C. ISHERWOOD Mr. Norris changes Trains xi. 165 Hitler's negotiations with the Right had broken down; the Hakenkreuz was even flirting mildly with the Hammer and Sickle).

The earliest OED reference for "Swastika" in the context of the symbol of the National Socialist German Workers' Party is a 1932 reference (‘NORDICUS’ Hitlerism ii. 17 Thousands flocked to his standard -the ‘Hakenkreuz’-(swastika)....."  It is interesting to note that the OED reference from Nordicus shows an example of the word "Hakenkreuz" being translated to "swastika."

The common translation of "Hakenkreuz" to "swastika" led to the "swastika myth," the common mis-belief that German National Socialists called their symbol a "swastika" and used their symbol merely as a "good luck" symbol, as suggested by the ancient sanskrit language.

The swastika myth is only one of many reasons why the "S" for "socialism" symbolism of the Hakenkreuz was overlooked before the discoveries made by Dr. Rex Curry. There is widespread ignorance about what "Nazi" means.  Most people do not know that the "Nazis" did not call themselves "Nazis."  There is widespread ignorance of the actual name of the Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party). Most people do not know that members of the party referred to themselves as socialists and used the word "socialism" when extolling their dogma.  
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The OED helps to expose how that ignorance began and how it spread.

"Hakenkreuz" is in Adelung's dictionary (of German words) of 1811, and "Swastika" is not.  Adelung's reference of 1811 for “Hakenkreuz” predates the "swastika" reference of 1871 in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) by 60 years.  http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter4a1a1.html

A vague understanding of the double "S" symbolism for "socialism" in the twisted Hakenkreuz is revealed in the very choice of the word "swastika" as a substitute for "Hakenkreuz" because "swastika" repeats the double "S" lettering and sounds that are graphically illustrated in the written socialist swastika as used under the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

The information also helps explain widespread ignorance about mutual influences between German National Socialists and American National Socialists.

Francis Bellamy (author of the "Pledge of Allegiance") and Edward Bellamy (author of the novel "Looking Backward") and Charles Bellamy (author of "A Moment of Madness") and Frederick Bellamy (who introduced Edward to socialistic "Fourierism") were socialists.  Edward, Charles and Frederick were brothers, and Francis was their cousin. Francis and Edward were both self-proclaimed National Socialists and they supported the "Nationalism" movement in the USA, the "Nationalist" magazine, and the "Nationalist Educational Association." They wanted to nationalize everything and they wanted all of society to ape the military and they touted "military socialism" and the "industrial army."  Edward’s book was an international bestseller, translated into every major language (including German) and he inspired the "Nationalist Party" (in the USA) and their dogma influenced socialists worldwide (including Germany) via “Nationalist Clubs.”   http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-german-connections.html Francis' pledge was the origin of the Nazi salute.

The original Pledge of Allegiance began with a military salute that then stretched out toward the flag. Historic photographs are at http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html and at http://rexcurry.net/pledge_military.html   In actual use, the second part of the gesture was performed with a straight arm and palm down by children extending the military salute while perfunctorily performing the forced ritual chanting.  Professor Curry showed that, due to the way that both gestures were used sequentially in the pledge, the military salute led to the hard, stylized salute of German socialists. The Nazi salute is an extended military salute via the pledge. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html

The Bellamys promoted a government takeover of schools.  When the government granted their wish, the government schools imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official government policy.  The schools mandated the robotic chanting of the pledge with the Nazi-style salute and persecuted and expelled children who would not comply, arrested parents, and even took children from parents on allegations of "unfit parenting."

The USA still follows similar anti libertarian policies promoted by the Bellamys. Many socialist Bellamy policies caused the USA’s big, expensive and oppressive government and its growing police-state. The Pledge still exists along with laws mandating that teachers lead the robotic pledge chanting every day for twelve years of each child’s life (though the salute was altered). The government still owns and operates schools, including the same schools that imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official government policy.  The U.S. practice of imposing segregation by law in government schools and teaching racism as official policy even outlasted the National Socialist German Workers' Party by over 15 years. After segregation in government's schools ended, the Bellamy legacy caused more police-state racism of forced busing that destroyed communities and neighborhoods and deepened hostilities. Those schools still exist.  Infants are given social security numbers that track and tax them for life.  Government schools demand the numbers for enrollment.

People who attended government schools in the USA are shocked to learn of the new discoveries, and they have difficulty responding in a rational manner. They are humiliated and embarrassed that they have been kept ignorant by government schools and even lied to while being led in robotic chanting for 12 years.  The stereotypical response  involves a state of denial where the respondent can formulate no factual dispute (a mental block-out of the factual history) and only childish insults that evade the topic altogether. It shows how conditioned US citizens are by the years of robotic chanting.  Some US citizens are not able to face the reality of the history of the pledge. The pledge has become an example of how dangerous government schools are.  The pledge is a primary justification for ending government schools.  As the saying goes "remove the pledge from the flag, the flag from the schools, and the schools from government."

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More support comes from a fan of RexCurry.net who writes: "British propaganda of WWII that I’ve read used 'crooked cross.' ”

"Hakenkreuz" is in Adelung's dictionary (of German words) of 1811, and "Swastika" is not.  Adelung's reference of 1811 for “Hakenkreuz” predates the "swastika" reference of 1871 in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) by 60 years.  The OED also lists “hakenkreuz” as an English word used in the Times in 1931. 

Another reader writes to Dr. Rex Curry: "To judge from the OED, we didn't have a single widely-known term for the symbol in the early 1930's when, suddenly, every newspaper needed one.  The OED indicates that for a while, the newspapers imported 'Hakenkreuz.'  It would be interesting to know how 'swastika' became the usual name. It seems that Germans didn't have anything to do with it."

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Here's what the Oxford English Dictionary has for fylfot, cramponnee and gammadion and hakenkreuz (the German name of the swastika). In French the common name is "croix gammee". The word fylfot has an interesting story, since it appears only once before the 19th c., and was resurrected by "antiquaries".

    fylfot . [The sole authority on which this word has been accepted by
modern antiquaries as the name of the mark in question is the passage from the
Lansdowne MS. quoted below. The context in which the word there occurs seems
to favour the supposition that it is simply fill-foot, meaning a pattern or
device for `filling the foot' of a painted window. There is nothing to show
whether the word denoted specifically this device as distinguished from others
used for the same purpose, and it is even possible that it may have been a mere
nonce-word.] A name for the figure called also a cross cramponnee (see
cramponnee), and identical with the swastika of India, the gammadion of
Byzantine ecclesiastical ornament; it has been extensively used as a decoration
(often, apparently, as a mystical symbol) in almost all known parts of the
world from prehistoric times to the present day. Also fylfot cross.
A. 1500 _Instruct. Memorial Wind._ in _MS. Lansdowne_ 874 lf. 190 Let me stand
in the medyll pane..a rolle abo[ve my hede] in the hyest..[pane] vpward, the
fylfot in the nedermast pane vnder ther I knele. [The words defaced or torn
off are supplied conjecturally. In the sketch, below the effigy of the writer,
is a `fylfot' composed of broad fillets, with tricking app. intended for
`ermine'.] 1842 J. G. _Waller Brasses_, Priest & Franklin, This device is
denominated `the fylfot' on the authority of some ancient directions for the
execution of two figures in painted glass..preserved in Lansdowne MS. 874. 1852
Planche _Pursuiv. Arms_ 135 The Fylfot is a mystic figure, called in the
Greek Church, Gammadion. It is very early seen in Heraldry. 1861 Haines _Mon.
Brasses_ p. cix, The Fylfot, a kind of cross potent rebated, or cross
cramponee.. 1868 Baring-Gould _Curious Myths_ Ser. ii. iii. 89 Bells were
often marked with the `fylfot', or cross of Thorr. 1887 _Athenaeum_ 20 Aug.
249/2 It comprises a fylfot cross set with studs.

 cramponnee , a. Her. [a. Fr. cramponne', cramponed: see prec.] Said of
a cross having a square hook-like bend at the end of each limb, all turned
thus, &390..
1727 Bailey (Vol. II.) s.v., A Cross Cramponnee..has a Cramp at each end,
or a square Piece coming from it, that from the Arm in chief towards the
sinister Angle.

    gammadion . Also gammation. [a. late Gr. gammation, gammadion,
f. gamma.] A decorative pattern formed of repetitions or combinations of
the shape of the Greek letter gamma (Gamma.); by antiquaries applied chiefly
to the particular device called otherwise fylfot; also to a figure composed of
four gammas placed back to back in such a way as to form a voided Greek cross.
1848 B. Webb _Cont. Ecclesiol._ 432 Apostles with gammadoe [sic] on their robes.
1872 _Gloss. Eccl. Terms_ (ed. Shipley), Gammadion, the same as Gammadium or
Fylfot. 1876 Rock Text. Fabr. v. 36 This word Gammadion was a word applied as
often to the patterns on silks as to the figures wrought on gold and silver.
1877 Lee Gloss. _Liturg. & Eccl. Terms_, Fylfot..was also called Gammation..the
Greek term for this mystical device. 1889 Elvin _Dict. Heraldry_, Gammadion, a
Cross potent rebated. attrib. 1869 Mrs. Palliser Lace ii. 19 Two specimens
of..network..the one ornamented with..shields and crosses, the other with the
mediaeval gammadion pattern.

     Hakenkreuz, hakenkreuz . [Ger.] The Nazi swastika.  Also attrib.
1931 _Times_ 23 Dec. 7/4 A large Nazi Hakenkreuz flag, `which can be seen for
miles', flies from the tallest chimney. 1935 C. Isherwood _Mr. Norris changes
Trains_ xi. 165 Hitler's negotiations with the Right had broken down; the
Hakenkreuz was even flirting mildly with the Hammer and Sickle. 1966 M. Albrand
_Door fell Shut_ xvi. 115 His eyes fell on a large hakenkreuz. To come upon the
Nazi insignia so unexpectedly made Bronsky feel slightly sick. 1972 _Oxford
Times_ 28 July 9 Perhaps he [sc. Hitler] hoped the Hakenkreuz would bring bad
luck to his enemies.

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The Swastika was used in Germany's flag under the National Socialist German Workers' Party, to emphasize the supposed superiority of German socialists/socialism over other socialists/socialism, and became a controversial symbol since then. In the Western world, it is most widely known and used as a symbol of German  Socialism.

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HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE VULGUS PROFANUM?


Interest in the swastika / hakenkreuz grew when the ruins of ancient Troy were uncovered by German archaeologists in the mid-19th century.

 The following is from the book “Swastika the earliest known symbol and its migrations” by Thomas Wilson and published in 1894 (at page 771)  -

“Dr. Schliemann found many specimens of Swastika in his excavations at the site of ancient Troy on the hill of Hissarlik.  They were mostly on spindle whorls, and will be described in due course.  He appealed to Prof. Max Muller for an explanation, who, in reply, wrote an elaborate description, which Dr. Schliemann published in ‘Ilios.’

He commences with a protest against the word Swastika being applied generally to the sign Swastika, because it may prejudice the reader or the public in favor of its Indian origin.  He says:

‘I do not like the use of the word svastika outside of India.  It is a word of Indian origin and has its history and definite meaning in India. * * * The occurrence of such crosses in different parts of the world may or may not point to a common origin, but if they are once called Svastika the vulgus profanum will at once jump to the conclusion that they all come from India, and it will take some time to weed out such prejudice.’ ”

Muller's prediction was amazingly accurate, and he labeled so many people in the world today as "vulgus profanum."  It is translated as "uneducated masses" and that is why a more literal translation is "vulgar and profane."

Translators changed “hakenkreuz” to “swastika.” Who was the first bad translator and why did others repeat the misrepresentation?  This website is researching.

"Swastika" translators might have wanted the National Socialist German Workers' Party to stain a foreign symbol rather than their own.  "Hakenkreuz" is a reference to a cross. http://rexcurry.net/swastikacross.html

The cross reference might have been a reminder that in ancient times it was for torture and execution.  The Nazi Hakenkreuz was used in the persecution of people for various reasons, including religious differences. It came to represent the socialist sins of the Nazis.

The Nazi Hackenkreuz  combined the German-Prussian Iron Cross (Ritterkreuz -"rider cross" or "Knight's Cross") with the pre-Nazi Hackenkreuz to form new overlapping "S" shapes for the "socialist" dogma of the horrid National Socialists.

Military medals and pre-1945 posters show the relationship to other crosses. http://rexcurry.net/socialism-posters/posters2.html
http://rexcurry.net/socialist-propaganda/posters1.html
 http://rexcurry.net/socialism/germany.html

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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) also supports Dr. Rex Curry's discovery that the Nazi salute originated in the United States.
http://rexcurry.net/roman-salute-oxford-english-dictionary.html

Amazon.com is following policy recommendations that are advocated by Dr. Rex Curry. Amazon's web site deletes and discourages use of the common 4-letter shorthand n-word for "National Socialist German Workers' Party" within Amazon's reviews, product information, tags and other uses.  By fighting the shorthand term, Amazon encourages customers to learn and to use the actual accurate name of the monstrous group: National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP). http://rexcurry.net/amazon-com-book-reviews-tags-discussions.html

For a long time, Dr. Curry has exposed widespread ignorance in the media and in the general public about what the 4-letter abbreviation abbreviates. That etymological ignorance has grown through overuse of the hackneyed shorthand term in print and in government schools (socialist schools).  Dr. Curry has advocated that the shorthand term should be avoided, unless it is used in conjunction with the full actual name of the Party. Amazon is helping Dr. Curry to reverse the ignorant habit within the media and the public.

Dr. Curry's work has been recognized in the vexillological group Flags Of The World (FOTW) http://rexcurry.net/fotw-flags-of-the-world-vexillology.html

And also in the North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) http://rexcurry.net/north-american-vexillological-association-nava.html

Dr. Curry's news-making work is discussed on Odeo Radio at http://odeo.com/audio/1747108/view

And also on Radio Indymedia at http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/10827.php

And also covered at Opinion Editorials at http://www.opinioneditorials.com/writer.php?id=rcurry
With more at OpinionEditorials at http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/rcurry_20050826.html