On 11/19/2015 1:27 PM, Bob W wrote:
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disease. I'm pretty sure that most of the camp guards in Hitler's
Germany,
Soviet Russia, Mao's China and Pol Pot's Cambodia, thought their actions
were justifiable at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY
The skull as a badge has had a long and mixed legacy as an emblem, like
the Swastika, there are similar emblems used both Hindu and Native
American icons that have a very different connotation.
It's only Swaticka's association with the Nazi's that makes it evil and
so too the skull as a symbol.
I suspect that the Nazi's, conflated the Knight's Templar with the
Teutonic Knights, and adopted one of their emblems to give some sort of
legitimacy to one of their organizations.
The skull and crossed bones on a black field was at one time used by the
Knights Templar as their Naval jack and I expect that if you were on a
medieval merchantman in the Mediterranean besieged by Pirates I doubt
that the sight of a Templar Galley under the Skull and Crossbones coming
to your rescue would have been seen as evil.
Now we associate that particular flag with Pirates.
While the skit is funny I doubt that the skull emblem made any Nazi
think they were bad. Many SS men may have had attacks of conscience,
but I doubt the obsessed over the emblem on their caps.
So I guess what I'm saying is that the Nazi's and anti Nazi
propagandists, (who really didn't need to do much), ruined everything.
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immortality through not dying.
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