"Michael Kuettner" > wrote in
:

>> Got a picture or a substantiating passage somewhere? I was unable to
>> find anything that stated this.
>>
> It's somewhere in Maser or Kershaw. They're citing an interrogation
> with Göring around the Nürnberg trials.

And what, you can't find it in the actual transcripts?

Let me give you a hand: http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/tgmwc/

>> Boy, you'd be NO fun in Indo-European linguistics classes.
>>
> Exactly. Since the use of the swastika _pre-dates_ the forming of
> the Indo - European language group, it would be nonsense to see
> it as a symbol typical for this group.

And why is that? If the symbol POST-dated the formation, it *might* be
specious to see a relationship, but as it PRE-dates, it is quite likely
that it was part of the symbolic baggage.

> Plus, The Finnish language
> is not Indo-European, eg.

But Suomi is found within an Indo-European area, as are the other two
Finno-Ugric languages: Türkçe and Magyar. Geographic connection
certainly explains the transference of a symbol from one group to
another.

Another example of possible transference in Suomi is the introduction of
the root "sat-" for "one hundred" which is most likely an import from
Russian. I am merely using this example to demonstrate that geographic
propinquity has a definite impact on cultural and linguistic
transference. It can be achieved in other ways as well, but that is a
primary conduit for transmission.

> Stay with your "Indian origin". Bye.

I guess you don't like new ideas.

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