Swastika - Reich Flag - Reich War Flag! A symbol has thereby became a symbol of unity for the German folk, which has accompanied its ancestors through Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age and early history, and German man through the Middle Ages down to the present time: 5,000 years of German history lie in the swastika! **** The swastika was a symbol of the sun, resulting from the four-spoke sun wheel, the sun cross. The basic meaning is the sun, and it is self-evident that the most diverse derivative meanings must come from this, such as: fertility, creation, source of life, and rebirth. For sun, source of life, fertility belong together. So does Germanic man of the Bronze Age in the second millennium B.C.E draw the swastika on rock cliffs next to depictions of cult cliff pictures that refer to practices of fertility and life awakening related to the seasons of the year. **** As late as the Viking period, the "wheel of the sun" is still spoken of, as the known Star-Oddi in Iceland still did. In Germanic territory, the pole, the wooden trunk, represented the deity, and around it, which in turn was synonymous with the all-pillar, the Irminsul; the heavens revolved **** We see from the beginning the swastika ever anew most closely linked to the sun wheel, the sun cross or the year cross. The swastika hence just completes the sun wheel in order to suggest the movement of the sun's course. That is done by the hooks. **** Christianity, coming from the eastern part of the Roman Empire, initially only knew symbols which were its own and hence typically Christian, such as fish, dove with olive branch, good shepherds etc.. The defender of Christian doctrine, Minutius Felix, blustered: "For we erect no crosses, nor do we wish this! You who hold wooden idols sacred and may perhaps pray to wood and crosses as parts of your gods!" During the spread of christianity, other symbols were then added, which we today perceive as much more typically christian, but which in reality originally were not, namely the cross and the swastika. Only later did the cross win the upper hand as christian symbol, because it was much easier to connect through the transformation into christ's cross of martyrdom with church doctrine than the swastika, and because one felt that Germanic man would view it all too much as the sacred symbolizing of his blood and his own spiritual bearing. **** Among Pagan Germanic people, the swastika was attributed to both Thor as well as Odin. It was the divine symbol of both. As Odin's symbol, it often contains, instead of the hooks, bird or horse heads. As Thor's symbol; steer heads. Even today, the swastika in Iceland bears the name "Thor's Hammer" **** Not just the meaning is important that we today link with the swastika, rather the knowledge of its past, emergence and significance can only make the symbol all the more valuable and worthy of veneration for us, especially since, after all, the Führer was aware of the past and the meaning when he elevated the swastika to the symbol of the movement and hence showed it a path which eventually made it the symbol of the unified Reich. In his book, "Mein Kampf", he writes: "As National Socialists we see in our flag our goal plan: In the red we see the social idea, in the white the national, in the swastika the mission of the struggle for the victory of Nordic man, and simultaneous with it also the victory of the idea of productive work, which itself was forever non-Jewish." **** Even if the swastika started its triumphant journey, proceeding from the Aryans, across the whole world, it was never adopted by the old Semites and, for good reason, always remained foreign to them. Today, one may view this fact somewhat as the negative side of the swastika symbol. For the Germans of the Third Reich, however, it has a positive meaning. Emerging in distant prehistory from the feeling and gazing of our ancestors as symbol of their kind, of their strength and of their high will, the swastika, after its ascent from a thousand years of obscurity, has again become the symbol of the purity of our racial community and of its firmness. A sublime, triumphant symbol of the life affirmation, warmness of heart, and creative energy of our folk. Sacred symbol of eternal Germany!