OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY OED SUPPORTS
CRYPTOLOGIST DR. REX CURRY's
DISCOVERIES REGARDING THE SWASTIKA - HAKENKREUZ
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Cryptologist and Symbologist Dr. Rex Curry
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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 his 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).
Around May 19, 1933 the New York Times also reported "In accepting the
imperial flag and the Nazi hooked-cross banner, President von Hindenburg
accepts the political triumph of the parties of which they are the symbol,
but his oath of allegiance to the Republic still stand inviolate." That
is a fascinating sentence, illustrating how the Times had already embraced
its misleading shorthand "Nazi," but not yet descended so far as to jettison
"hooked-cross" for "swastika" as it eventually would. The descent into deception
continues around November 7, 1935 when the New York Times reports "The new
war flag, it was officially revealed today, definitely puts the German armed
forces under the swastika cross, although some concessions have been made
to the old army colors and symbols."
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
symbol 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.'
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"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) regarding Heinrich Schliemann -
“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
Read about swastika symbolism from Troy, Homer and the Iliad,
the vulgus proganum, Professor Max Muller, & Dr. Heinrich Schliemann
http://rexcurry.net/nazism-national-socialist-german-workers-party.html
http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter4a1a1.html
Max Muller & the "vulgus profanum"
http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hakenkreuz.html
http://rexcurry.net/rome-ancient-rome-myths.html
The Anthropologist Heinrich Schliemann helped to popularize the swastika.
http://rexcurry.net/swastika-braiding.html
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.
http://rexcurry.net/nazism-national-socialist-german-workers-party.html
Pledge Allegiance to the Truth in Greco-Roman Archaeology and Roman salute
myths, Heinrich Schliemann & Troy.
http://rexcurry.net/archaeology.html
Before the time of German National Socialism, there had been a resurgence
in recognition of the symbol from the archaeological work of Heinrich Schliemann.
ANCIENT ROMAN EMPIRE FORUMS Many books about philology mention the work
of the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann. In 1873, he excavated what
he believed to be Troy.
http://rexcurry.net/roman-salute-ancient-roman-empire-forums-saluto-romano.html
Swastika
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Swastikas from Troy, Homer & the Iliad, the vulgus profanum,
Max Muller, & Heinrich Schliemann
Sawastika & Swastika
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Swastikas from Troy, Homer & the Iliad, the vulgus profanum,
Max Muller, & Heinrich Schliemann
