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`... So this book is about symbolism, rather than Nazism, and it represents an important and even courageous contribution to the study of visual culture sine the late nineteenth century.' - Christopher Frayling, Royal College of Art
`This book displays enormous erudition...a valuable addition to the critical studies of the Third Reich.' David Cesarani, Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library Limited
`This book displays enormous erudition...a valuable addition to the critical studies of the Third Reich.' David Cesarani, Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library Limited
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Despite the enormous amount of material about Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original contribution examines the popular appeal of the archaic image of the swastika: the tradition of the symbol.
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Visitors in search of diversion and instruction at the Paris Exposition of 1889 might have been intrigued by an unusual display at the Palais des Artes Liberaux, where a Polish librarian named Michael Zmigrodski had arranged drawings of over 300 objects, each bearing a swastika or, as he put it 'an ornament which I believe to have a swastikal origin'. Read the first page
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Visitors in search of diversion and instruction at the Paris Exposition of 1889 might have been intrigued by an unusual display at the Palais des Artes Liberaux, where a Polish librarian named Michael Zmigrodski had arranged drawings of over 300 objects, each bearing a swastika or, as he put it 'an ornament which I believe to have a swastikal origin'. Read the first page
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