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The Swastika

Constructing the Symbol

by Malcolm Quinn

A cultural and theoretical study of how the swastika was transformed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from an ornamental motif into the Nazi emblem. Quinn analyses the role of archaeology, philology and propaganda in constructing its meaning.

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