Download or read book The Swastika written by Malcolm Quinn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the enormous amount of material about Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original contribution examines the popular appeal of the archaic image of the swastika: the tradition of the symbol.

Download or read book The Swastika written by Steven Heller and published by Allworth Press. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forces even the most sophisticated to rethink and rework their ideas of how images work in the world."--School Library Journal.* Traces the history of the swastika, from religious symbol to reviled symbol * More than 175 illustrations * Powerful examination of the impact of one graphic symbol on society. This acclaimed examination of the most powerful symbol ever created is now available in paperback. The rise and fall of the swastika, and its mysteries and misunderstandings, are fully explained and explored. Readers will be captivated by the twists and turns of the symbol's fortunes, from its pre-Nazi religious and commercial uses, to the Nazi appropriation and misuse of the form, to its contemporary applications as both a racist and an apolitical logo. In a new afterword, author Steven Heller discusses the controversy around ideas to ban the symbol and public reaction to the book since it was first published. This is a classic story, masterfully told, about how one graphic symbol can endure and influence culture for generations. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Download or read book Black Swastika Red Swastika written by Alexander Askanas and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-04-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a historical novel, a fi ctional story based on historical facts. The book begins in the summer of 1942, in the Warsaw ghetto at the start of the great Aktion of deporting the Warsaw Jews to the death camp Treblinka. A pair of young doctors, Leo and Rachel, with a 4 year old son Adam, tries desperately to escape the deportation and death. They are initially successful but eventually they are caught by the death machine and taken to the Umschlagplatz for the trip to Treblinka. They escape from the Umschlagplatz, and later from the ghetto , just before the ghetto uprising, to hide on the Aryan side .Adam is sent to a catholic family and Leo organizes the hospital at the edge of a huge forest near Warsaw, mostly for the partisans fi ghting against the Nazis. They all survive the WWII but Rachel succumbs later to the ovarian cancer . The second part of the book starts at the end of 1952, under a communist regime, when Leo is already a Professor of Cardiology and treats prominent Polish politicians. At that time in the Soviet Union 14 members of The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee were executed and many prominent Jewish Doctors were arrested in the trumped up case of The Murderers in the White Coats, accused of trying to kill Soviet politicians, including Joseph Stalin. Leo is called to Moscow to treat visiting Polish Prime Minister, because all Russian doctors, terrifi ed by the arrest of their colleagues, are afraid to treat him. When in Moscow Leo is entrusted with the secret mission to notify the West that Stalin and the KGB are planning to deport all the Jews to Beribidzhan in the Eastern Siberia. He meets Tanya a young doctor, a daughter of the most prominent Russian lady scientist, who is now exiled to Kazakhstan for her membership in The Jewish Anti- Fascist Committee. Tanya looks like the younger sister of his late wife, Rachel and Leo and Tanya fall in love almost immediately. Leo is interrogated brutally in Moscow by the KGB but is released with the help of Polish Prime Minister. He returns to Warsaw and shortly later attends a Cardiology conference in Switzerland. There he is run over by a truck driven by the KGB agent but escapes with only broken arm. Afterwards he drives to Paris where he goes to the US Embassy to report the KGB plans. The Embassy offi cials dont believe fully his story but when the papers report the beginning of the court proceedings against the Jewish Doctors, his story fi nds a little more understanding. He is received with more appreciation in the Israeli Embassy and is fl own to Tel- Aviv to report to the Prime Minister Ben Gurion on the plight of the Russian Jews. As a result of his mission major US and Israeli newspapers report on the Stalins and the KGBs plans to deport Russian Jews. Later Leo goes to Moscow, together with his son Adam, to rescue Tanya from the serious threat of arrest and the deportation. They get married and using false papers and big bribes they manage to return to Poland in a nail biting escape. Stalin is seriously ill but he jailed his personal physician. He becomes more paranoid and threatening to one of his closest hangman, who decides to eliminate this danger. Stalins death ends all plans of Jewish deportation to Siberia.

Download or read book The Buddhist Swastika and Hitler s Cross written by T. K. Nakagaki and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable cross-cultural history that rescues the swastika, an ancient Buddhist symbol, from its deployment by the forces of hate. The swastika has been used for over three thousand years by billions of people in many cultures and religions—including Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism—as an auspicious symbol of the sun and good fortune. However, beginning with its hijacking and misappropriation by Nazi Germany, it has also been used, and continues to be used, as a symbol of hate in the Western World. Hitler's device is in fact a "hooked cross." Rev. Nakagaki's book explains how and why these symbols got confused, and offers a path to peace, understanding, and reconciliation. Please note: Photographs in the digital edition of the books are in color. Photographs in the print edition are in black and white.

Download or read book Moroni and the Swastika written by David Conley Nelson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist government was persecuting Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses and driving forty-two small German religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered. How some fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived in Nazi Germany is a story little known, rarely told, and occasionally rewritten within the confines of the Church’s history—for good reason, as we see in David Conley Nelson’s Moroni and the Swastika. A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitler’s regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and resistance. The Twelfth Article of Faith and parts of the 134th Section of the Doctrine and Covenants function as Mormonism’s equivalent of the biblical admonition to “render unto Caesar,” a charge to cooperate with civil government, no matter how onerous doing so may be. Resurrecting this often-violated doctrinal edict, ecclesiastical leaders at the time developed a strategy that protected Mormons within Nazi Germany. Furthermore, as Nelson shows, many Mormon officials strove to fit into the Third Reich by exploiting commonalities with the Nazi state. German Mormons emphasized a mutual interest in genealogy and a passion for sports. They sent husbands into the Wehrmacht and sons into the Hitler Youth, and they prayed for a German victory when the war began. They also purged Jewish references from hymnals, lesson plans, and liturgical practices. One American mission president even wrote an article for the official Nazi Party newspaper, extolling parallels between Utah Mormon and German Nazi society. Nelson documents this collaboration, as well as subsequent efforts to suppress it by fashioning a new collective memory of ordinary German Mormons’ courage and travails during the war. Recovering this inconvenient past, Moroni and the Swastika restores a complex and difficult chapter to the history of Nazi Germany and the Mormon Church in the twentieth century—and offers new insight into the construction of historical truth.

Download or read book Becoming Chinese written by Wen-hsin Yeh and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-04-21 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A splendid essay collection focusing on ordinary people in the chaotic post-emperor, pre-Communist period of China's history.

Download or read book Swastika Night written by Katharine Burdekin and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1985 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a "feudal Europe seven centuries into post-Hitlerian society, Burdekin's novel explores the connection between gender and political power and anticipates modern feminist science fiction."--Cover.

Download or read book Red Star Against The Swastika written by Vasily Emelianenko and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the extraordinary story of Vasily B. Emelianenko, the veteran pilot of one of the Soviet Union’s most contradictory planes of WWII – the I1-2. This heavily armoured aircraft was practically unrivalled in terms of fire power, but it was slow to manoeuvre and an easy target for fighters. I1–2 had to attack enemy flak columns at extremely low altitudes, which led to enormous tolls both in equipment and personnel.

Download or read book Mein Kampf written by Adolf Hitler and published by ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madman, tyrant, animal—history has given Adolf Hitler many names. In Mein Kampf (My Struggle), often called the Nazi bible, Hitler describes his life, frustrations, ideals, and dreams. Born to an impoverished couple in a small town in Austria, the young Adolf grew up with the fervent desire to become a painter. The death of his parents and outright rejection from art schools in Vienna forced him into underpaid work as a laborer. During the First World War, Hitler served in the infantry and was decorated for bravery. After the war, he became actively involved with socialist political groups and quickly rose to power, establishing himself as Chairman of the National Socialist German Worker's party. In 1924, Hitler led a coalition of nationalist groups in a bid to overthrow the Bavarian government in Munich. The infamous Munich "Beer-hall putsch" was unsuccessful, and Hitler was arrested. During the nine months he was in prison, an embittered and frustrated Hitler dictated a personal manifesto to his loyal follower Rudolph Hess. He vented his sentiments against communism and the Jewish people in this document, which was to become Mein Kampf, the controversial book that is seen as the blue-print for Hitler's political and military campaign. In Mein Kampf, Hitler describes his strategy for rebuilding Germany and conquering Europe. It is a glimpse into the mind of a man who destabilized world peace and pursued the genocide now known as the Holocaust.

Download or read book The Scourge of the Swastika written by Edward Frederick Langley Russell Baron Russell of Liverpool and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ch. 6 (pp. 163-225), "Concentration Camps", contains a short history of the most notorious Nazi concentration and extermination camps (e.g. Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, and Ravensbrück) and describes the murder process in them. Ch. 7 (pp. 226-250), "The 'Final Solution' of the Jewish Question", focuses on Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda and on the persecution and killing of Jews in German-occupied areas (Poland, the USSR, France, the Netherlands, Hungary, etc.).

Download or read book Take That Adolf written by Mark Fertig and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1941 and 1945, Hitler was pummeled on comic book covers by everyone from Captain America to Wonder Woman. Take That, Adolf! is an oversized compilation of more than 500 stunningly restored comics covers published during World War II, featuring America’s greatest super-villain. From Superman and Daredevil to propaganda and racism, Take That, Adolf! is a fascinating look at how legendary creators such as Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Alex Schomburg, Will Eisner, and Lou Fine entertained millions of kids on the home front and buoyed the spirits of GIs fighting overseas by using Adolf Hitler as a punching bag.

Download or read book The Iron Dream written by Norman Spinrad and published by Norman Spinrad. This book was released on 1974 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond the Swastika written by Peter O'Brien and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book Between the Swastika and the Cross of Lorraine written by Samuel Huston Goodfellow and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of 1920s and 1930s Alsace, to reveal the many faces of fascism. The study of the region, with its interplay of French, German and Alsatian nationalities, proves a framework for understanding how this ideology has matured over time to fit changing contexts.

Download or read book The Tzniyus Book written by Rabbi Jack Abramowitz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tzniyus Book presents not only explanations for, but also the Biblical and Talmudic sources of traditional practices of dress and comportment among observant Jews. If a person has an idea what's what, but may not be sure why, The Tzniyus Book lays it out in a down-to-earth, contemporary fashion.

Download or read book Bombay Swastika written by Braham Singh and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bombay Swastika swings from a Nazi Berlin gearing up for its Final Solution, to 1964 Bombay, where Ernst Steiger, a German Jew, accidentally finds himself caught up in the murder of a young tribal, killed amidst allegations of something being stolen from a secure American compound. With the monsoons laying siege on the city, the reader accompanies Ernst past Bombay’s refugee camps and haunted whorehouses; food shortages, textbook mafias, communist protests against American PL 480 Food Aid, and peculiar happenings at India’s nuclear facility; where Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, the nation’s atomic mastermind, gets drawn into a conspiracy hatched in his absence. This one-of-a-kind thriller unfolds through the eyes of a motley cast-Salim Ali, the South Indian, Muslim engineer and committed Marxist; Bhairavi, the enigmatic and sensual refugee girl; Sethji, the dowry messiah; Tsering Tufan-Homi Bhabha’s Smiling Buddha-dying from radiation exposure; and Andhi Ma, the blind mendicant who sees what we can’t. Bombay Swastika is an exploration of the dark world of absolute truths. “The author has picked an unusual premise for this complex thriller. The characters are as unique as the setting. What a terrific debut!” —SHOBHAA DE Bestselling Novelist & Columnist With the amazing ease of a seasoned storyteller, Braham Singh takes the reader to a world that is alive with history and throbbing with details. Bombay Swastika is a compelling first novel and an exciting thriller. ―ANEES SALIM Award-winning Author Braham Singh's narrative keeps you going till the end. From Nazi camps to Mumbai's deepest secrets, and to Homi Bhabha's nuclear program, Bombay Swastika keeps you gripped. Eagerly looking forward to seeing this story on a movie screen. ―Dr. RADHAKRISHNAN PILLAI Award-winning Author What an amazing literary mash-up: taking the cauldron that is India, with its communal and industrial turmoil, and adding in tortured fragments of the Holocaust and the impact of exile and displacement from Europe. The result is a tumultuous and haunting tour de force and a stunning debut novel. ―MONROE E. PRICE Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York City

Download or read book Evolution of Swastika written by Samar K Kundu and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this monograph on "Evolution of Swastika: Good or Evil," is an attempt to show to the world the real meaning of an ancient symbol Swastika, meaning, 'Well Being', 'Good Existence', and 'Good Luck'. But why is this symbol so important and why did Adolf Hitler decide to use it? The Swastika symbol was not invented by Hitler, he stole it from "Rig Veda" . He made this signal to a most hated signal for his own hatred towards the Jews and the non-Aryan race and his greed to make "Thousand Year Reich" for the German Aryans and as the supreme leader of the world. It should be reminded that Swastika is a sacred symbol of Hindus, Buddhists, Jains. Historically, many other native peoples of several regions the world over have regarded Swastika as a sacred symbol. In Europe use of Swastika is banned as it was used by Hitler and Nazis for Evil purposes. Hitler did not invent Swastika, he just stole it. Hitler and Nazis also used Cross on the chest-pocket. So why ban Swastika and use it for good purpose of life?