Swastika Gullvagn

From the Swastika Blog.
This message From Erik about the foto i got: "Hi from Sweden! Sending a contribution of swastika in swedish traditional food. This is a picture of a traditional swedish Yuletide
(christmas) bread. This bread is baked symbolising the revolving of the solar year and
celebrating midwinter and the return of the sun. This celebration stems from prechristian times when Sweden had traditional religion that was polytheistic. The shape of this bread is named GULLVAGN meaning wagon of gold or goldwagon. It is a type of sunwheel. The type of bread is called LUSSEKATT, is baked with saffron for taste and yellow colour. It comes in many other shapes as well, but this is one of the more common ones."

Vegetarian/Buddhist Swastika BBQ Sauce

I bet the swastika makes it taste better.

Swastika Dungeon in the Legend of Zelda

Fairly obvious swastika in Nintendo's original the Legend of Zelda.

ADL Declares "Japanese Good Luck Symbol Offensive to Jews"

In yet another example of the Anti-Defamation League's bizarre obsession with the Swastika, Nintendo has agreed to withdraw a Pokemon Trading card that bears a clock wise swastika. The Jewish Lobby declared that the card shows "insensativity to the feeling of Jews". All The ADL has succeeded in doing is furthering the exposure of the Swastika. As a result of the ADL action, the Swastika Pokemon Card will be most highly sought after card in America. Every child will want the banned card for their collection. In all probability, the symbol on the card would have gone unnoticed by most children. Now a whole generation of our nations youth will be made aware of the swastika. Expect the swastika to show up on notebooks and desks at a school near you. In trying to supress a harmless symbol, the ADL has once again increased the allure and interest in Humanities oldest symbol. I guess we should say, thanks ADL, for aiding us in our mission to increase awareness of this Holy Symbol.
From HERE.

Carlsberg Beer & the Swastika

Carlsberg is a Danish beer, started in 1847.

Here's from Carlsberg's website about the use of the swastika in their marketing.
"When JC and Carl Jacobsen agreed to name their breweries Old Carlsberg and New Carlsberg respectively, they also decided to use a different label design for their beer brands. – JC was using the 12-pointed star and Carl Jacobsen who was fascinated by the Antiquity chose the swastika with four dots as his trade mark. The swastika is a symbol of prosperity and good fortune and widely spread throughout the ancient and modern world. The symbol was in use until World War II."
One of my personal missions is to allow for the swastika to exist in the Western public mind as the "lucky pinwheel" again. I seem to remember my dad drinking Carlsberg elephant beer when I was a kid.

Raining Swastikas by Boris Artzybasheff

Great piece by Boris Artzybasheff! Always love his work. Thanks to Marc Time for this one!

Every Day Is Like Halloween...

Thanks to Amelia for this one.

Sex Pistols - Something Else

Fantastic Sex Pistols 45 sleeve.

Swastika hair cut at New Year's Eve San Francisco, 1981

This French girl's haircut and pose has made a very popular picture. The image title, the symbol, the historical reference is fascinating to many. Let me tell you now, I feel sad for Nazis, Fascists, White Supremacists, Fundamentalist and all who misguidedly associate themselves with the type of social pathology that the Swastika, in our modern world, represents. By doing so, they doing a disservice to intelligence, civilization and universal life. I oppose the illusion of differing races. I abhor any type of Nationalism, ethnocentrism, xenophobia, religious exclusivity or authoritarianism. I delight in the multi-cultural experience I've gained through living in California and New York and through my travels. I've benefited greatly from my curiosity which has lead me to discover the cultures of the world through people I have befriended.
When I was a Punkrock Radio DJ in the late '70s and was able to participate in punk shows and enjoy the friendship of younger punkrockers, I met some who used the ancient Indian broken-cross symbol as appropriated and called "swastika" by Hitler. I understood the kids' use of the symbol to be an rebellious act, primarily aimed at alarming the mainstream culture. Generally, it seemed punkrockers had little historical perspective and I did not think their use was political. I thought their use would redefine the symbol's meaning for future generations. I was naive and mistaken about this.
At that time and since, many goof-ball leaders continued to gather followers through misusing this ancient and beautiful symbol, embracing the deployable racial-political ideas of German Nazis.
The picture was taken at a Rat Productions' New Year's Eve show in 10th Street Hall, San Francisco, ringing in the new year of 1981. The bands included Johnny Genocide's "No Alternative" who played in front of a wall-size Confederate flag. The girl with the hair cut was small, French and arrived late. All attention was on her entrance, the spectacle of her head design parted the awestruck crowd. She found a group of friends, who surrounded her, exclaiming, in French, their amazement and admiration for the newly created doo. It was a spectacular hair design, the scalp shaved, leaving short hair in the swastika shape dyed in square patches of orange and black, outlined with white makeup on the scalp. We all had our breath taken away.
I correctly recognized that her head was the most iconic visual of the evening. After an hour, as she passed near me on her way out, I pulled out my pocket camera, asked her, in English, for permission to photograph her. She sighed in exasperation, took a step back, brought her hand to her mouth, tilted down her head into the pose you see here. After the one shot, she continued out.
Despite the symbol's association with appalling social attitudes, disastrous politics and despicable genocidal fantasies, this picture of a hair design, a small girl's pose has remained my favorite image from my days as a punkrock photographer
photo & writing by Steve Harlow

Secret Swastika: buffalo edition

Antique flannel with swastika and Native American images for good luck.

Swastikas Sell

Man Woman

Here goes this Canadian artist ManWoman on a spiritual mission to put the swastika into its correct context (no, no, not as tattoos covering your body!). I salute him for it.

glittering swastika Ganesha statue

Get your own from Dolls of India!

Hitler & Blondi

Look at that crazy swastika wicker chair!

swastika cake!

Happy Birthday to #1 Daily Hitlerian Sean!!!

The Pink Swastika

Falling into my theories about homosexuality being more manly than heterosexuality is the Pink Swastika. An exploration into the homosexual roots of the Nazi Party. Here's the introduction from their website. I'm sure this book would make a fantastic Christmas gift to anyone who is interested in existence on your gift list this year.

Welcome to The Pink Swastika 5th (Internet) Edition.

It has been several years since we published the fourth edition of this book. In that time we have accumulated a substantial amount of new documentation supporting our thesis that the Nazi Party was conceived, organized and controlled throughout its short history by masculine-oriented male homosexuals who hid their sexual proclivities from the public, in part by publicly persecuting one group of their political enemies: out-of-the-closet effeminate-oriented homosexuals aligned with the German Communist Party. During that same time, our detractors, mostly "gay" political activists, have increased their attacks on the book, primarily by ridiculing its premise, but occasionally by challenging certain facts or sources. They are rightly concerned that this book threatens their long-standing public-relations strategy of posing as victims to win public support for their political agenda. When the first edition of The Pink Swastika was published in 1995, the homosexual community was heavily invested in a campaign to equate homosexuals with Jews as Nazi victims in order to exploit the Holocaust for their political advantage. The primary symbol of their movement at that time was the inverted pink triangle, which had been used by the Nazis to identify homosexuals interned in German work camps during the Third Reich, and it was common to hear "gay" activists talk about "the Gay Holocaust." The Pink Swastika was written to challenge that campaign. Because, while there certainly were some homosexual victims of the Nazi regime, and a record of harsh public condemnation of homosexuality by the Nazi Party, the true, complete story of homosexuality in Nazi and pre-Nazi Germany does not in the least help the "gay" cause. If The Pink Swastika were the "pack of lies" the homosexual movement claims it is, the book would not have influenced their "Gay Holocaust" strategy in the smallest degree. It would have been easy to discredit and disregard. Instead, how did the "gay" leaders respond to its challenge? They stopped talking about the Nazis almost entirely and changed their symbol from the pink triangle to the rainbow flag. We prevailed in our campaign. And our research was implicitly vindicated. However, the attacks continued and now various, ostensibly non-homosexual surrogates have taken up the "gay" effort to discredit the book. This edition of The Pink Swastika is designed to once-and-for-all silence the critics by emphasizing the strength of our documentation. The Internet is particularly helpful in this task because we can provide direct links to supporting documents and websites, pictures, graphics, video clips and other resources right alongside the text in an interactive format. We hope you find The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party 5th (Internet) Edition useful and informative.

Bonus gag for you: Rabbi walks into Jewish bakery, says, "How much does this challah cost?" Old lady with numbers tattoo'd on her wrist falls over backwards.

(Secret) Swastika

Her expression plus the black guys next to her make this an A+++ phone capture.

From the HILARIOUS People of Walmart blog.

Punk & the Swastika: London Punk 1977

I wanna say these photos are by Caroline Coon but i can't remember. I think i saw them in her 1977/1988 Punk book first.

Swastika Shadow

US Government poster by Lawrence B. Smith, 1942.

Punk & the Swastika: London Punk 1977

I always wonder what point it actually serves to compare things to Hitler & Nazi Germany. For myself, when i was younger & accepted the idea that America was no better morally than Nazi Germany, to philosophically work myself out of that hole & love my country, i had to accept Nazi Germany as well. Today, i accept that Nazi Germany is a taboo interest, even if it is a very common one. It is more taboo today than it was when i was a kid, & much more taboo than in the 50s & 60s. I'm trying to figure that one out as well, i've got some theories involving Communists, but i'll leave that for later.