As he dug, he found spheres and pottery fragments bearing the images of swastikas. Malcolm Quinn, in his work The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol. In 1874 the businessman and adventurer Heinrich Schliemann, started excavations in Turkey at a site he believed to be the lost city of Troy of the Homeric epics. So how did the Nazi Party acquire this symbol and use it to such great effect that it became synonymous with the Führer and Nazi Germany, with the power to contribute to such an ignominious period in human history? 15th Infantry adopted it as their emblem and The Girls’ Club of the Ladies Home Journal membership sign was a swastika.
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries the swastika was used in commerce it was appropriated by Rudyard Kipling and used as his personal logo, and in World War I the U.S.
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