Michel Boucher wrote:
> "Michael Kuettner" > wrote in
> :
>
>>> That is odd, but given that the restaurant is in Mumbai, it may have
>>> been the association with the swastika (which goes back to the
>>> Neolithic period and is a symbol of good things in Hinduism), rather
>>> than Hitler himself, which is definitely an unfortunate association.
>>>
>> Except that the Indian swastika usually faces in the other direction.
>
> The swastika can face in any direction. It has a different meaning but
> it is still a symbol in Hinduism in either direction.
>
Please note the "usually".

>>> Of course, this symbol of goodness has been severely damaged by the
>>> untalented Austrian housepainter.
>>
>> Housepainter ? Hmmmm ...
>
> Untalented housepainter...please get it right :-)
>
He painted postcards after he was rejected by our academy of arts ...
He also was rejected by the Austrian army ...

>> The wrong-facing swastika was the emblem of a Swedish airline.
>> Goering married the daughter of the owner ...
>
> So it was not associated with Nazi ideology at first. The Finnish Air
> Force also used a Swastika as its cocarde:
>
Exactly. The emblems of the Nazi party were more or less by accident.
The swastika from Goerings wife and the brown uniforms of the SA
because those were the uniforms of the colonial troops from WW I
which the party could buy cheaply.

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Cheers,

Michael Kuettner