History UsefulNotes / NonNaziSwastika

* In Creator/BarbaraHambly's ''Sun Cross'' duology, a wizard in a medievalish fantasy world receives a call for help from wizards in another world. Their emblem is the sun cross, an ancient and respectable symbol in his world, which he takes as a good sign. The reader, with the necessary context to spot the otherworldly wizards as actual Nazis with a non-non-Nazi swastika, realizes he's in trouble a fair way before he does.

* Creator/CarlSagan's book ''Comet'' recounts an instance during the filming of ''Series/CosmosAPersonalVoyage'' where the film crew were greeted with paper swastikas while filming in India during a festival. Several of the crew, including Sagan himself (who was Jewish), were briefly alarmed until they realized it was an example of this.
** Sagan also theorized the existence of swastika-shaped comets as a possible origin of the symbol.

* [[http://reclaimtheswastika.com/ Reclaim the Swastika]] is a website dedicated to try to rehabilitate the public's perception of the swastika.
** Which is one of many such movements. Some just want an old symbol not to be judged based on a relatively modern and brief movement. Some do it for their own religious reasons. And others think taking away the symbol of Nazism would be a great blow to neo-nazi movements.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_Ontario Swastika]] is a small mining town in Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1908 and named after the original good luck symbol, the community refused on multiple occasions to change the town's name despite being OvershadowedByControversy since World War II.

* The Coca-Cola company produced [[http://www.adbranch.com/coca-cola-swastika/ swastika watch fobs]] in the 1920's. They're somewhat rare and obscure collector's items today.

** There is an indirect connection between the Finnish swastika and the Nazis. The benefactor of the Finnish air force, the Swedish Count von Rosen, was a good friend of Hermann Goering when the latter was in exile in Sweden in 1920's. Indeed, Goering would go on to marry the count's niece. It is possible that the Nazi use of swastika drew some inspiration from this relationship.

* Similarly, "Swastika Trail" in the small Ontario community of Puslinch came under some fire from B'nai Brith Canada who started an online movement to change the street's name, but [[https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/12/21/puslinch-township-votes-to-keep-swastika-trail-street-name.html were outvoted 4-1]] and the name was retained. Like Swastika, Ontario, the name was adopted in the 1920's and has nothing to do with Nazism, but [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace this doesn't stop the street name from generating controversy]].

* Dutch martial artist Gerard Gordeau has a swastika tattooed on his torso, which along his bald head and his status as one of the most infamous dirty fighters in the world has gained him some serious heat among UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fans. However, the swastika itself is actually part of a bigger tattoo which contains Buddhist art, and Gordeau himself is rumored to have Jewish ancestry, so he is far from being a Nazi skinhead.

* Carlsberg Beer originally had a swastika [[http://www.carlsberggroup.com/Company/heritage/Pages/CarlJacobsenstrademark1881.aspx as part of their trademark]]. Its use was gradually phased out during the thirties and the swastika finally disappeared completely in 1945, however it can still be seen on the old brewery buildings as well as on some of the museums and churches in Copenhagen that the brewery's philanthropic owner Carl Jacobsen paid for.

* Similarly, "Swastika Trail" in the small Ontario community of Puslinch came under some fire from B'nai Brith Canada who started an online movement to change the street's name, but [[https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/12/21/puslinch-township-votes-to-keep-swastika-trail-street-name.html were outvoted 4-1]] and the name was retained. Like Swastika, Ontario, the name was adopted in the 1920's and has nothing to do with Nazism, but this doesn't stop the street name from generating controversy.

* Subverted in ''Film/OneNightWithTheKing'', an adaptation of the Literature/BookOfEsther. The villain Haman wears the good luck swastika millennia before the Nazis, yet also happens to be planning to exterminate the Jews.

* In ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'', the Jewish gangster Meyer Wolfsheim operates out of the "Swastika Club" (presumably, like many older buildings, it has that design on it). There is some argument though that this wasn't an innocent usage, as Wolfsheim is something of an anti-Semitic caricature, the Nazi movement had already adopted it as their symbol by the time the novel was written, and Fitzgerald was fairly knowledgeable of white supremacist movements.

* ''Literature/OneNationUnderJupiter'': Gottlieb gives a swastika necklace to Diagoras, calling it a symbol of Thor. Justified as the Nazis never existed in this timeline.

** China and Japan: China has a separate pattern (萬字不到頭) which represents eternity. 卍 as a Buddhist symbol also arrived in China and their meanings are often conflated. The meaning of 卍 in Chinese varied, with common interpretations including "infinity" or "kindness", or if you're the [[http://www.plm.org.hk/buddha.php Tian Tan Buddha]], [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs both]] (萬德). Also used in Japan (as well as in Korea, Taiwan, and UsefulNotes/HongKong) to mark the locations of Buddhist temples on maps. Present in words of chants that are in Old Japanese, and ones that are actually in a old Chinese language/dialect and just read with the Japanese pronunciation of the kanji. The ones in a Chinese language may additionally be the result of Chinese monks phonetically rendering the original Sanskrit into a Chinese language without, in fact, translating it. It does make a case for the manji becoming a kanji in the first place, though.

Contrast NoSwastikas, though even Non-Nazi Swastikas are liable to be censored. In no small part because neo-Nazis frequently try to dodge European laws against display of Nazi symbols by appropriating Non-Nazi Swastikas and anything else that looks even vaguely swastika-like.

-->-- '''Kazemaru''', WebVideo/YuYuHakushoAbridged

* The plot of ''Manga/TokyoRevengers'' revolves around a fictional gang called the "Tokyo Manji Gang", whose symbol is a manji, which naturally means that manji appear quite often. It faced censorship in America for its usage of the manji. Later on, the South and Southeast Asian releases left it untouched, leaving Crunchyroll as the only streaming service outside of Japan to censor the anime.

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* In the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', SCP-914 transform objects into other related objects of different quality depending on the setting. When tested with 4 printed swastikas, two turned into Nazi themed objects, and two into Hinduism themed ones.

* ''Manga/TokyoRevengers'' faced censorship in America for its usage of the manji. Later on, the South and Southeast Asian releases left it untouched, leaving Crunchyroll as the only streaming service outside of Japan to censor the anime.

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* A particularly jarring example has to be the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Temple of Rats]] in Karni Mata. It's decorated with a row of swastikas---and a row of yellow six-point-stars above it. That combination of symbols would be jarring enough from a post-WW2 perspective, but the location makes it even more so since Nazi propaganda so frequently conflated Jews with rats.

* ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'': Hachisuka Kotetsu, being from the Hachisuka clan, has the crest of said clan as detailed in the real life folder below as his personal crest.

** ''Ocarina of Time'' introduced the Forest Medallion, which seems to be some form of swastika.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'':
** Both Ran and Yukari Yakumo from ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' use a swastika-themed spellcard in their battles with you. Ran's version is ''Shikigami's Shot "Ultimate Buddhist"'' and Yukari's is ''Evil Spirits "Butterfly in the Zen Temple."''
** ''Imperishable Night'' has Fujiwara no Mokou's Deathless "Xu Fu's Dimension" spellcard.

* One of the weapons in ''Videogame/LaMulana'' is the Keyblade, a mystically-attuned sword with a swastika inserted in the blade. In the remake, however, the design was changed to a more ambiguously square shape.

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* The MickeyMouse cartoon "The Wayward Canary," from the year 1932, has a brief scene where a baby canary lands on a cigarette lighter with a swastika design on it. This scene was cut from TV airings, but if you watch it, you may notice that its arms are counter-clockwise, rather than clockwise as in a Nazi swastika.

* Buddha-Jumps-Over-the-Wall from ''Tale of Food'' formerly explicitly brought up this topic to explain the swastika he wears on his neck, though the term Nazi was not outright mentioned. This line has since been replaced.

** China and Japan: China has a separate [[https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%87%E5%AD%97%E4%B8%8D%E5%88%B0%E5%A4%B4 symbol]] which represents eternity. 卍 as a Buddhist symbol also arrived in China and their meanings are often conflated. The meaning of 卍 in Chinese varied, with common interpretations including "infinity" or "kindness", or if you're the [[http://www.plm.org.hk/buddha.php Tian Tan Buddha]], [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs both]] (萬德). Also used in Japan (as well as in Korea, Taiwan, and UsefulNotes/HongKong) to mark the locations of Buddhist temples on maps. Present in words of chants that are in Old Japanese, and ones that are actually in a old Chinese language/dialect and just read with the Japanese pronunciation of the kanji. The ones in a Chinese language may additionally be the result of Chinese monks phonetically rendering the original Sanskrit into a Chinese language without, in fact, translating it. It does make a case for the manji becoming a kanji in the first place, though.

** China and Japan: Eternity. Also used in Japan (as well as in Korea, Taiwan, and UsefulNotes/HongKong) to mark the locations of Buddhist temples on maps. Present in words of chants that are in Old Japanese, and ones that are actually in a old Chinese language/dialect and just read with the Japanese pronunciation of the kanji. The ones in a Chinese language may additionally be the result of Chinese monks phonetically rendering the original Sanskrit into a Chinese language without, in fact, translating it. It does make a case for the manji becoming a kanji in the first place, though. It's often claimed it also mean 10,000. This is false. 10,000 is "mahn" written 万.