The Swastika, Polish participant in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, is tearing off the German flag with the Nazi symbols of the Third Reich from the wall of the city building. The Eastern Front of the Wehrmacht, the Second World War in Europe.
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Time of shooting photos: August 1944
The swastika in Nazism became the heritage of the German racist nationalist movement Völkisch and Ariosophy, dating back to the creator of the Ariosophy of Guido von List. Young Adolf Hitler was inspired by the lectures of the poet Alfred Schuler, who brought the Ariosophical idea of swastika to Germany. In the view of Hitler, the swastika symbolized the “struggle for the triumph of the Aryan race”. This choice combined the mystical occult meaning of the swastika and the idea of the “Aryan” symbol (due to its prevalence in India), and the already established swastik in the German extreme right tradition: some Austrian anti -Semitic parties used it, and in March 1920 For years during Kapp-Putsch, it was depicted on the helmets of the Hermann Ehrhardt brigade (perhaps there was an influence from the Baltic states, since many soldiers of the Volunteer Corps came across a swastik in Latvia and Finland).