1) Yes
2) No, it might have been influenced in some way, but it's still not the same symbol. Neither symbolic nor visually.
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by chimeracoder on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:33PM
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> 2) No, it might have been influenced in some way
Again, just to be clear, it's not that "it might have been influenced in some way". It's that Adolf Hitler specifically talked about his reasons for using the swastika in his manifesto.
> Neither symbolic nor visually.
As explained at length elsewhere in this thread, the two symbols are not visually distinguishable without additional context. You can easily find religious uses of a swastika which are literally visually identical to Nazi uses of a swastika.
1. the Swastika symbol has been around a long time, been used by many cultures and countries, is basically universally recognized
2. but when the Nazis used it, it's not Swastika, because they called it something different, so there's no way to know if they were influenced by the identical symbol that everyone already knew about