Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/01

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Subject: [Leica] Why Leicas with Nazi symbols should be trashed,
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:31:59 -0400
 
They really are basic ornaments out of basic ornimenture.
You'd expect to see them on the edges of door mats.
But as a result of 1933 - 1945 they have a stigma which is going to hang in
there for many thousands of years. And I do think people on the eastern
hemisphere are aware of all that strong stigma.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: "H. Ball Arche" <h_arche at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:30:37 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Why Leicas with Nazi symbols should be trashed,
> 
> 
> I had been given to believe that the swastika is one of those few 
> ideographs,
> like the rayed sun/circle, that has dated to neolithic times and can be 
> found
> in the record of virtually all cultures and continents. It certainly was 
> used
> by the Native Americans, and I think that it even had significance in the
> Hebrew Kabalah.
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