Why did Hitler decide to copyright the India's spiritual symbols and concepts?

Just wondering since the whole concept of "Aryans" and the "swastika" had originated from India.........I am just wondering why didn't Hitler call his race the "Nordic race" or the "Visigoth race" and why didn't he use some sort of symbol traditionally represented Germany acurately? like a sword with a Cross through it to represent the First Reich. It makes no sense that Hitler would decide to borrow spiritual concepts from a race of "inferior dark skinned people" for his race of "superior white skinned people"........
Why did Hitler decide to copyright the India's spiritual symbols and concepts?
idk but he was as crazy as all get out
Why did Hitler decide to copyright the India's spiritual symbols and concepts?
The Swastika has been used by humans since prehistory. The word Swastika has its roots in Sanskrit, the language of ancient India, but the actual symbol is older. Swastikas have been found on vases, coins, and other artifacts all over the world.





The swastika was a symbol of the Nordic god Thor, and was adopted by a lot of German occult/magical groups in the late 1890s.





Dr. Friedrich Krohn designed the classic Nazi Swastika in 1919. Unlike the rest of Germany, Dr. Krohn acknowledged the ancient Buddhists used the symbol, and argued that the Nazi Swastika should point "anti-clock-wise" because to Buddhists this signifies "fortune and well-being". Hitler demanded that the Nazi Swastika point "clock-wise", which to Buddhists signifies "cessation" or "away from God".





Also, much of the earlier spiritual concepts of Hinduism are traceable to the non-Indus Aryan invaders of India, and not at all contradictory from a racist perspective
Reply:The use of the swastika was associated by Nazi theorists with their conjecture of Aryan cultural descent of the German people. Following the Nordicist version of the Aryan invasion theory, the Nazis claimed that the early Aryans of India, from whose Vedic tradition the swastika sprang, were the prototypical white invaders. It was also widely believed that the Indian caste system had originated as a means to avoid racial mixing
Reply:the geometric shape (equalateral cross) called the swastika has occured in thousands of cultures over time.





the "swastika" in this case is full of symbolism, the 'equalateral cross' i.e. the shape that was supposedly borrowed/stolen from hindu religion (even though it also occured in many Native American artworks and religions, as well as some ancient African and Asian cultures) was actually said to represent Thor's Hammer in flight, Thor of couse being a Nordic/Germanic god.





Now, the Swasitka was first encountered by mainstream western civilization when artifacts from Troy were uncovered in the 1790s. Troy was a famous city that stood opposite of the Greek City States, and a lot of rulers claimed some relation to nobles who fled Troy, this was their excuse for why they should rule, because they were decended from royalty of Troy.





A lot of 1800s and early 1900s Europeans liked the idea of their culture stepping back all the way to Ancient and Honorable Troy, especially as Western Civilization is built on a foundation of Greece Civilization, it is much better to say you are connected to it by birth rather than just copying it, especially when your rulership is passed down by birth rather than elections.





It also appeared in Germanic Migration Period and Viking Age artifacts (thors hammer being thrown and all) so it was a great way for the Germans to say "See, we are noble people, decended from the famous people of Troy, so that means we are better than everyone else)





Also, ancient Troy was located in Turkey. People of the time were quite aware of a "Indo-European" langauge that was a common beginning for a lot of the languages of northern and central europe, and also some areas of south west asia...namely turkey. This allowed the Germans to have another connection to Troy. As this area brushed up against the middle east, it ran smack into another language family, the Semetic Tongues, and it being quite different was quite important...so you have the added benifit of it drastically stating 'We aren't Jews' which was of course important to the German People of the day





At the time it wasn't well traced back all the way to India, and there were theories abound regarding it actually being even older, and the sanskrit being found in india had spred their from a civilization even older than Troy. Some even misinterpreted the forward spread of the Sanskrit tongue as backward spread, and tried to claim that the original 'indo-european people' stated in germany/nordic regions, moved to Troy, where the language spread over to India.