The Opinion Editorials article explained how the former Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics may have originated the modern use of the swastika as
overlapping "S" letters for "Socialism," adopted later by the National
Socialist German Workers' Party.
http://rexcurry.net/ussr-socialist-swastika-cccp-sssr.html
Dr. Curry's discoveries have changed the way that people think about the
swastika. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html
Wikipedia is known as an online encyclopedia. The Wiki article repeats
information from the Opinion Editorials article by Dr. Curry under the title
"Swastika," with the sub heading "Russia."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Russia
Wikipedia has also helped to spread the news about Dr. Curry's discovery
that the USA's early Pledge of Allegiance to the flag (1892) used a
straight-arm salute and that the Pledge was the source of the salute of the
monstrous National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP).
http://rexcurry.net/wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia.html
Another Wikipedia article on the "Bellamy salute" references Dr. Curry's
work showing that Charles Lindbergh and other Americans were photographed
performing the early straight-arm salute to the U.S. flag, and that those
photographs were used later to imply cooperation with German National
Socialists.
http://rexcurry.net/america-first-committee-charles-lindbergh-wikipedia-org-wiki.html
A photograph of Lindbergh performing the salute is at
http://rexcurry.net/america-first-committee-charles-lindbergh.JPG
In his Pulitzer prize winning biography "Lindbergh," author A. Scott Berg
also agrees with Dr. Curry's assertion that photographs of Americans
performing the early Pledge salute were used to imply cooperation with the
National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP). It is interesting to note
that when the "Lindbergh" biography was written, the author Berg failed to
make Dr. Curry's discovery that the American salute was the origin of the
German Socialist salute.
The raised-arm salute was created (1892) by an American (Francis Bellamy)
who was a self-proclaimed socialist in the Nationalism movement in the USA.
The American salute pre-dated the NSGWP by 30 years.
http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
Amazon.com adopted as its policies recommendations advocated by Dr. Curry
and reported in Opinion Editorials.
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/rcurry_20061027.html
Amazon's web site deletes and discourages use of the common 4-letter
shorthand n-word for "National Socialist German Workers' Party" within
Amazon's reviews, product information, tags and other uses. By fighting the
shorthand term, Amazon encourages customers to learn and to use the actual
accurate name of the monstrous group: National Socialist German Workers'
Party. http://rexcurry.net/amazon-com-book-reviews-tags-discussions.html
For a long time, Dr. Curry has exposed widespread ignorance in the media and
in the general public about what the 4-letter abbreviation abbreviates. That
etymological ignorance has grown through overuse of the hackneyed shorthand
term in print and in government schools (socialist schools). Dr. Curry
advocated that the shorthand term should be avoided, unless it is used in
conjunction with the full actual name of the Party. Amazon is helping Dr.
Curry to reverse the ignorant habit within the media and the public.
The American socialist Francis Bellamy was cousin and cohort to Edward
Bellamy, another famous socialist and the author of the novel "Looking
Backward." Edward's book was an international bestseller, translated into
every major language (including Russian, German and Chinese). The Bellamy
dogma inspired the "Nationalism" movement in the USA, Germany and worldwide.
Edward inspired the creation of the Nationalist Party. Edward and Francis
supported the Nationalist Magazine, the Nationalist Educational Association,
and Nationalist Clubs everywhere.
There may be other parallels with the America First Committee, in that
Bellamy nationalists focused on nationalism ("my country over others"),
nativism, rabid patriotism (e.g. Pledges of Allegiance in government schools
with the original straight-arm salute), a government takeover of schools,
and desires for government ownership and control of everything. They wanted
to nationalize everything and they wanted all of society to ape the military
and they touted "military socialism" and the "industrial army."
The Bellamys and the pledge inspired socialists worldwide, and in the
socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): 62 million
slaughtered under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 49 million
slaughtered under the Peoples' Republic of China; 21 million slaughtered
under the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
The American Pledge and salute from Bellamy socialists was the origin of the
salutes of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Peoples' Republic of
China, and the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and it inspired
their robotic chanting and worship of government and flags and symbols in
their government schools (socialist schools).
http://rexcurry.net/ussr-socialist-swastika-cccp-sssr.html
The National Socialist German Workers' Party clearly patterned itself upon
the National Socialism promoted by socialists in the USA during the three
decades before the NSGWP existed.
Three decades before the National Socialist German Workers' Party existed,
socialists in the USA had promoted National Socialism, the straight-arm
salute, collective robotic chanting, and the modern swastika as an "S"
symbol for "socialism."
http://rexcurry.net/theosophy-madame-blavatsky-theosophical-society.html
A Harvard graduate, Ernst Hanfstaengl, personally assisted the leader of the
NSGWP in promoting national socialism with more ideas from America.
http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.html
The USA is still the worst example in the world of bizarre laws that require
robotic chanting to a national flag in government schools (socialist
schools) every day for 12 years.
The Bellamys promoted a government takeover of schools, the placement of
flags at schools, and robotic chanting of the pledge to the flag with the
old notorious gesture. When the government granted their wishes, the
government schools imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official
government policy. The schools mandated the robotic chanting of the pledge
with the straight-arm salute and persecuted and expelled children who would
not comply, arrested parents, and even took children from parents on
allegations of "unfit parenting." There were acts of violence and
lynchings.
The USA still follows similar anti libertarian policies promoted by the
Bellamys. Many socialist policies caused the USA's big, expensive,
oppressive government, its aggressive military socialism, and its growing
police state. It caused the Great Socialist Depression (from the Federal
Reserve Act of 1913, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act 1930 etc) that persisted
and even lasted through U.S. involvement in WWII. The Pledge still exists
along with laws mandating that teachers lead the robotic chanting every day
for twelve years of each child's life (though the salute was altered). The
government still owns and operates schools, including the same schools that
imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official government policy.
That policy even outlasted the National Socialist German Workers' Party by
over 15 years. After segregation in government's schools ended, the Bellamy
legacy caused more police-state racism of forced busing that destroyed
communities and neighborhoods and deepened hostilities. Those schools still
exist. Infants are given social security numbers (socialist slave numbers
from 1935 during the NSGWP) that track and tax everyone for life.
Government schools (socialist schools) demand the numbers for enrollment.
The pledge and the flag have become examples of how dangerous government
schools are (and how dangerous government is in general). The brainwashing
ritual has indoctrinated many students of government schools with the
national socialist propaganda.
Support for Dr. Curry's discoveries also comes from the Oxford English
Dictionary (OED).
http://rexcurry.net/roman-salute-oxford-english-dictionary.html
Support also comes from the web site of the American Philological
Association. http://rexcurry.net/american-philological-association-apa.html
Dr. Curry's work has been recognized in the vexillological group Flags Of
The World (FOTW).
http://rexcurry.net/fotw-flags-of-the-world-vexillology.html
Similar recognition occurred in the flag group North American Vexillological
Association (NAVA).
http://rexcurry.net/north-american-vexillological-association-nava.html
Dr. Curry's news-making work is discussed on Odeo Radio.
http://odeo.com/audio/1747108/view
The discoveries are on Radio Indymedia.
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/10827.php
And also covered at Opinion Editorials at
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/writer.php?id=rcurry
With more at OpinionEditorials at
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/rcurry_20050826.html
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Alfred Rosenberg was another notorious socialist who was active in Russia
(in 1917) and in Germany (in the National Socialist German Workers' Party).
The noted historian Dr. Rex Curry has suggested that this may have been the
inspiration behind the adoption of the swastika as alphabetic symbolism for
"socialism" by the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Rosenberg was born to Baltic German parents in Reval (Tallinn) Estonia, then
part of the Russian Empire. He studied architecture at the Riga Polyechnical
Institute and engineering at Moscow University, completing his Ph.D. studies
in 1917.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he emigrated to Germany (in 1918)
along with his friend Max Scheubner-Richter. Rosenberg was one of the
earliest (January 1919) members of the German Workers Party and it became
the National Socialist German Workers Party and adopted the swastika as its
symbol and used the symbol to represent "S" letters for "socialist." In
1921, Rosenberg became editor of the Völkischer Beobachter ("Folkish
Observer"), the newspaper of the National Socialists.
Rosenberg also became a member of the Thule Society, founded August 17,
1918. Rosenberg and the Thule Society touted oddball ideas about socialism,
universal brotherhood, and the Aryan race that were all borrowed from the
notorious socialist and occultist Madame Blavatsky and her Theosophical
Society, formed in New York in 1875. The Thule Society used a swastika as
its symbol, however the Thule swastika was not the same swastika used by
German National Socialists. The swastika used by German National Socialists
was the same swastika that had been used for forty years by Madame Blavatsky
as a symbol for her utopian "socialist society."
http://rexcurry.net/theosophy-madame-blavatsky-theosophical-society.html
Thule Society members maintained close contacts with followers of Theosophy
and the followers of Helena Blavatsky. It is also interesting to note that
the names of both groups had the same "TS" initials that the Theosophical
Society had used in its symbolism for decades.