The history behind the Nazi swastika

 

The history behind the Nazi swastika

 

The wise man Agudengba and the caravan leader Lacuo stayed at a small inn in Tibet. The inn owner Sinval, who claimed to be of Aryan descent, talked with them about the "swastika" symbol, which made them laugh. What puzzled Latso was that the "swastika" character actually became the Nazi party emblem and flag. What puzzled him even more was that the Nazis also associated the Aryans when designing this logo.

At night, when Lacuo and Agudengba went to bed, Lacuo and Agudengba asked: Why did the Nazi Party use the "swastika" character as the party flag and emblem? Is what the inn owner Sinval said credible?

Agudemba said:

What Sinval said is not unreasonable, but he only gave some basic outlines. To truly understand the reason why the Nazi Party used the "swastika" character as its flag and emblem, we must analyze it from the historical background of the time.

In the 18th century and before, Aryans were only equivalent to the current concept of "Indo-Aryans". But since the 19th century, the world has undergone major changes. The rise of nationalism and national movements has changed the world.

At that time, Friedrich Max Muller, who was born in Dessau in the German Confederation, put forward the hypothesis of Aryan invasion of India. He was a German philologist and Orientalist specializing in Indology. He was one of the founders of Indian studies and comparative religions in Western academic fields.

Muller's interest in India was not only presented in academic works, but also in the form of novels, allowing a large number of British readers to access and understand Indology. The "Oriental Sacred Scriptures" that he led to translate into more than 50 volumes is a permanent monument to the scholarship of the Victorian era.

Müller believed that the culture of the Vedic period represented a form of nature worship. He regarded the gods in the Rig Veda as various natural forces and imagined them as supernatural personal beings, but they only had partial personality. Based on this idea, Müller deduced his theory of myth as a "disease of language". Meaning, myth transforms ideas into various beings and stories.

To put it simply and popularly, he believed that gods originated as words used to express abstract concepts, but later transformed into various imaginary personal beings. These names can all be traced back to the same word "Dyaus". This word means "to shine" or "to shine", and from this word comes the names of gods such as Zeus and Jupiter. In this way, a metaphor becomes personified and fixed. Muller's thoughts in this regard are very similar to those of Nietzsche later.

Maybe many people are not familiar with this Muller, but one of his racist quotes has been passed down to this day, which is what he said: "Blood is thicker than water, words are thicker than blood."

Lacuo said: I have also heard the saying "blood is thicker than water". This should be to promote racist ideas.

Agudemba said:

You are right. The problem is that after people developed racist ideas, they believed that there was a group of blond and fair-skinned Nordic "Aryans" who set out from Northern Europe, conquered all parts of the world, and founded major civilizations. After that, they became no longer pure due to intermarriage with local races in various places.

Around 1853 to 1855, a Frenchman named Joseph Gobineau wrote the book "An Essay on the Inequality of the Races of Man." Gobineau was born into a noble and royal family. In 1835, he went to Paris, where he worked as a minor official in bookkeeping and began to associate with nobles and literati in order to become famous. He has specialized in languages and oriental cultures. He served as secretary when the writer and statesman Tocqueville became foreign secretary in 1849. He then began his career as a diplomat and served in Bern, Hannover, Frankfurt, Tehran, Rio de Janeiro and Stockholm. Gobineau is also known as a novelist, historian and literary critic.

The novels written by Gobineau include "Seven Stars", "Travel", "Asia Stories", etc.; academic works include "Persian History", "Central Asian Religion and Philosophy" and "Renaissance". These works made Gobineau famous in intellectual circles, but it was his "On the Inequality of Race" that was his most influential work. To this day, Gobineau is recognized as "one of the founders of the concept of scientific racism" and a "pioneer of National Socialism." The theory of racial determinism advocated by Gobineau had a huge influence on the racist theory and practice later developed in Western Europe.

Gobineau believes: "Civilization is born as soon as a large group of people unite under the same flag, or, in this case, more accurately, once a certain way of life is generally accepted." He also believes that: Any The foundation of civilization is all white people. "This is what history teaches us. It shows that every civilization has its origins in white people, that nothing can last without the participation of white people, that a society can only be great and prosperous if it retains the aristocratic group that created it, and that group itself Among the most advanced branches of our kind.”

Gobineau also identified ten preexisting civilizations. Such as ancient India, ancient Egypt, ancient Assyria, ancient Iran, ancient Greece, ancient China and ancient Rome, including the Germanic people in Germany in the 5th century. They are the geniuses who changed the West.

Ancient India and the islands of the Indian Ocean, as well as the northern and eastern centers of the Asian continent beyond the Brahmaputra River, were the habitats of the white Aryan race.

The ancient Egyptians were surrounded by Ethiopians, Nubians and several small ethnic groups living in the western part of the Amon Oasis. This society originated from an Aryan colony in India, established in the upper Nile Valley.

The ancient Egyptians and Assyrians together with the Jews, Phoenicians, Lydians, Carthaginians and Himmeans created a civilization. They owe their social intelligence to the massive invasion of white people, descendants of Ham and Shem. The Iranians are a branch of the Aryan family. In the same Aryan people succeeded the ancient Greeks, who came into contact with Semitic elements. The ancient civilizations of the Italian peninsula, the birthplace of Roman culture, are a mosaic of Celts, Iberians, Aryans and Semites.

An Aryan colony from India brought social ideas to China. It's just that it didn't mix with the black tribes like along the Nile River, but integrated into the masses of Malays and yellow-skinned people. In addition, in the face of white elements, it also received strong support from the northwest, who were also Aryan families. Yes, but no longer Indian.

The American civilizations are mainly Allegan civilization, Mexican civilization and Peruvian civilization.

In his book "The Theory of Racial Inequality", Gobineau asserted that the white race is superior to other races and said that the Aryans represented the highest peak of civilization. Based on this, he put forward the theory that racial composition determines the destiny of civilization, explaining that white people, especially Aryan society, can only maintain prosperity when there is no blood of black and yellow people, and if the racial characteristics of a civilization are changed through racial mixing, The less obvious it becomes, the easier it is for a civilization to lose its vitality and creativity, and to fall into corruption and moral decay.

Agudengba said to Lacuo again:

The arguments of "The Theory of Racial Inequality" had a clear influence on the thoughts of German Wilhelm Richard Wagner and Nietzsche, and eventually developed into a movement called Gobineauism.

In the 20th century, Wagner's British disciples Chamberlain and Hitler both sought inspiration from Gobineau. They expanded the concept of "Aryans" from Indo-Aryans to Proto-Indo-Europeans. They believe that the original Indo-Europeans were blond and blue-eyed Nordic people, who later spread and conquered other races and established civilization.

Based on the above theory, at the beginning of the 20th century, Nazi Germany called the superior race Aryans. They believe that the Germans are one of the purest Nordic peoples, and they implement strategies of discrimination, subjugation and extermination against other races, especially Jews and Gypsies.

Through ethnic cleansing, the Nazi Party gave the remaining outstanding population in Germany the name "Aryans." This group of people is what Hitler calls an excellent race that is as tall as wood and as hard as iron.

Nazi party members often changed the original meaning of "Aryan". In addition to eugenics, the word "Aryan" was more commonly used to refer to "pure Germans", thereby achieving the purpose of discriminating against other races such as Latins and Slavs. Although Latins Together with the Slavs, they also belong to the Aryans described by the Nazi party. But the Nazi Party also sought to eliminate some of these people.

The Nazi Party considered itself to be the Nordic "Aryans" and an excellent race. In fact, even some Nordic "Aryans" were often purged or even killed, especially those with disabilities, homosexuals, and mentally ill people in Germany. , German Jews, and Gypsies in Germany, etc. The Nazi Party achieved its so-called "eugenics" goals by persecuting so-called inferior humans.

In the 20th century, the Nazi Party advocated national purity and eugenic theories, and regarded the ancient Indo-European white Aryans as their ancestors.

It was at a time when the so-called "nationalist" thoughts of "white supremacy" and "racial discrimination" were rampant that Hitler adopted the views of scholars at the time and adopted the religious symbol "swastika" of Aryan descent as the flag of the Nazi Party. Party emblem.

Lacuo said: Mr. Agudenba, thank you for letting me understand this knowledge and giving me a new understanding of the so-called "blood is thicker than water" racist thought.

Agudemba sang an improvised song "National Revival":

 

History always weeps sadly,

The tears were filled with ethnic discrimination.

Those who promote white supremacy,

Use brutal killing to exterminate the alien race.

Those who advocate eastward expansion and westward expansion,

They always bring out their ancestors to scare people.

 

People who are good at using tricks to control people,

Always raising the banner of nationalism,

Advocate for national rejuvenation of patriotism,

Inciting ethnic conflicts and provoking war,

Behind the bloody scenes of modern war,

The powerful families have blood on their hands.