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swastika (Hakenkreuz), the hooked black cross which became part of the German national flag in 1935. Its origins go back to the ancient world, in which it was a fertility symbol. In early Christian and Byzantine art it was known as the Gammadion Cross. In 1910 the German poet and ideologist Guido von List suggested it as the symbol for all anti-Semitic organizations and for this reason—and because it was thought, incorrectly, to be Teutonic in origin—it was adopted by Hitler's National Socialist Party in 1919. The word swastika comes from Sanskrit, meaning ‘well-being’. See also anti-Semitism.

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