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The Iron Cross seems to have recovered from the Nazi association. Bikers and the guys in Motorhead seem to like them, anyway. But, correct me if I'm wrong, that was a pre-Third Reich German thing as well.
that exhibit in your last link was wonderful--really excellent. I've had big discussions at mefi about this before, but if anyone is to reclaim their own symbol, they're welcome to it. It's not for us who were persecuted under banners and uniforms and people wearing it to reclaim--it was never ours--just used against us.
Firemen never gave up the Maltese (Iron) Cross (which existed hundreds of years before Germany did), nor did the German armed forces.
I'm not sure about agreeing that the pain of the Holocaust allows one group to take a symbol away from another group, that had nothing to do with their suffering. I think the living matter more than the dead, in any case.
...also from Canada is Manwoman, who involved in an effort to reclaim the swastika from infamy. He's tattooed with them - a big one on his back and his arms are symmetrically tattoed.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
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