Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/30

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Subject: [Leica] Why Leicas with Nazi symbols should be trashed,
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:50:24 -0700
References: <2bb4503255d1ed3fdd46562c7be1c5f0@cshore.com> <3cad89990906301042s6f58f4d0t84e8a8f7ddbe990c@mail.gmail.com>
 
"Thankfully," they flipped it and turned it 45 degrees, so the eternal
peace symbol is left alone.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj<jayanand at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> The Swastika is actually a very holy symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and
> Jainism, amongst other Eastern religions, and predates Nazi use by only 
> 3000
> years or so. So don't step foot in this part of the world, as you are going
> to pained quite often!
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
>



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In reply to: Message from dnygr at cshore.com (Douglas Nygren) ([Leica] Why Leicas with Nazi symbols should be trashed,)
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