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  Govind

  4 years ago

  I also happened to discuss about the haulocast with some of my german friends, no one appreciates what happened. And the swatik symbol, they also believe that it was because they were supposed to be aryans. And so on. And why, hitler picked up that one I dont really know!!.
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  Aaina

  4 years ago

  Exactly Gaurav. What the heck? Swasthika is a holy symbol for "others" but is considered "evil" by the Americans because of ONE event that happened years ago! Goodness gracious, that's all I can say!
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  Gaurav

  4 years ago

  Actually when I was writing the post, I was thinking of one your post where u wrote that u can speak german (where u mentioned aaina's jumbled word post.)
  
  Actually a lot of Sanskrit words or their modified versions are in German.
  
  Hitler started a movment "Anschluss" which was to make a greater Germany from small parts where Germans lived. Here we can easily compare Anschluss and Ansh from sanskrit which means small fragments...this stuff is interesting.
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  Gaurav

  4 years ago

  Not just Americans aaina, but Europeans too as the holocaust took place in Germany.
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  Govind

  4 years ago

  Actually "Anschluss" means "connection" , and as you said there are quite some words in German which originate from "Sanskrit". For example, there are some sirnames sound similar to "Hanuman" n also "Sharma". ;) And a word "Kaput", which is also a marathi word.Means some thing which is damaged."Acht" means "Eight".If I recollect more, will post here. :D But problem with german language is "they link up two or more words together and make it one word". :(
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  suneel

  4 years ago

  Gaurav...that was a very well written post....I never gave it a thought before reading ur post...now I cant agree more with u...I mean just becoz some moron used that symbol in history it doesnt mean that who ever is using that symbol are evil !!!
  
  Govind....I didnt know that u were in Germany...only realized that a couple of minutes ago when I left a comment on ur blog noon my time and it showed abt 7 PM on ur site:)
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  abhi

  4 years ago

  Swastika was developed in many countries including Europe and North America. But after WW2, it was looked upon as evil primarily because it represented the Nazi symbol. Even some Jewish churches hasve the symbol. What most of the people believe is Swastika to be a Nazi logo representing the evil they have done. Actually I believe that its a phase that has passed. I can cite a thousand arguments which will vividly prove England and the USA to be no better than Germany or Japan during or after WW2. What Bush did in Iraq is also no better what the Nazi's did during the war (I suggest you read some of the first person blogs to get a better view of this). So all I can say is that its the perspective of view that matters. Like you said, if Bush uses a symbol today, Iraqis would hate him all the same.
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  Gaurav

  4 years ago

  Govind - I thought it was unification, may be the teacher's were trying to explain the concept and not the word's literal meaning.
  
  Suneel - I am glad I brought something to ur notice, which u weren't aware of. I didn't know that Govind was in Germany, untill I read ur comment. I "by default" thought he would be in U.S. and thought he might have German friends. Atleast now I know.
  
  Abhi - Definitly kids 10 - 20 years from now will read the Iraqi war in their history books. How it is interpreted simply depends on what is their geographical location. Kids in US will study that "we liberated them!" and kids in Middle East will study "They liberated us! (from the world)" but the problem is that all the kids have to study the history :|
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  Puneet

  4 years ago

  It reminds me of the saying “bad news is good news” this from media… tv /newspaper perspective… bad things get highlighted more then good things…. there many reason for this
  With regards to swastik I think I read in today or some newspaper it supposedly first mentioned in Sanskrit and belong to some 5000 or so year old [ not sure about the years ]…and was hijacked by nazi.. later … .. I doubt if there any way to very facts …when conflicting views… because “History “ gets twisted and turned and different perspective depending upon the political scenario various things ……
  
  

  
  i was in hurry haven’t read the earlier comments so thing might be repetitive

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