Comments by "wayne antoniazzi" (@wayneantoniazzi2706) on "Last Military to March With Swastikas" video.

  1. In Asia certainly. The "historically challenged" here in the US typically know about Nazi atrocities but almost nothing about what the Japanese did in Asia.
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  2. There was an American car company (the name escapes me) that used a swastika for a hood ornament. Surviving vehicles show up at car shows from time to time but the owners usually cover up the swastika, it sames them having to answer awkward questions.
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  3.  @lasskinn474  Interesting. I know the Thais got into a little trouble over a Hitler display in a museum ten or so years ago but their inclusion of Hitler or indifference to Nazi symbols didn't surprise me. As I understand it most Asians could care less about Hitler which is understandable, Hitler didn't do anything to THEM, not like the Japanese did. If the Thais are indifferent to what the Japanese did in WW2 maybe the occupation wasn't as bad in Thailand as it was elswhere? Then again, it WAS 80 years ago and you have to let it go some time. You forgive but don't forget. I'm not a big expert on Asia but I know the Chinese certainly haven't forgotten the Japanese occupation, nor the Koreans or Vietnamese.
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  4. During WW2 in Western Europe the white star was used on both American and British tanks and other vehicles as a quick-recognition symbol like the black and white invasion stripes on aircraft. Unfortunately as the war went on those white stars were painted out as the Germans were using them as aiming points! Post-WW2 the white star came and went on American military vehicles until today where it's no longer used.
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  5. I think Asian peoples are made of sterner stuff than their Western counterparts. Asians certainly remember what the Japanese did but usually don't make a habit of caterwauling about Japanese symbolism like Western snowflakes do at the sight of s swastika.
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  6. When Hitler chose the swastika as a symbol for the Nazi party he wanted something simple, bold, striking, and once you saw it you wouldn't forget it. He certainly got it right with the swastika but he permanently ruined it for everyone else. There was a building in New Jersey built in 1914 that had a frieze of interlaced swastikas which lasted intact through the WW2 and post-war years until recently when the frieze was obliterated. The "historically challenged" had their way with it.
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