Debunking
the Nazi "Backwards Swastika" Myth
By http://www.jrbooksonline.com JR's Rare Books and
Commentary
1. From The
Migration of Symbols [and their Relations to Beliefs and Customs] by Donald
A. MacKenzie, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1926, p. 3:
2. From The
Migration of Symbols by the Count Goblet d'Alviella, University Books, NY,
1956; facsimile reprint of the edition published at Westminster, 1894, p. 60
(facing):
Also from (2.), after p. xxiii. Note that introduction contributor George Birdwood expressly
describes a non-Nazi swastika as "sinister" = left-hand. As a
consequence, the opposite (Nazi) type must be dextroverse =
right-hand. He also calls the left-hand
suwastika at bottom "inauspicious", i.e., unfavorable:
Also from (2.), p. 32.
On p. 40, d'Alviella says, "In India it [the gammadion]
bears the name of swastika, when its arms are bent towards the right
(Fig. 14a)":