Talk:Western use of the Swastika in the early 20th century
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Why should this be limited to a period of time in the West? In the entire planet, the biggest controversy over swastika symbols is in the West. The history of the symbol's use in the late 1800's and early 1900's is very much a present day issue. Only in America are some buildings that contain swastika decoration named to the National Register of Historic Places while others are hacked up to remove architectural features because of the interpretation of a few. This destruction of historic buildings and ignorance of the history of the swastika will benefit from burying this information in a page that will not likely be accessed. Most people will stop at the main swastika page. I don't disagree that the main page had grown too large and disorganized. The lists of sites and controversies serve a purpose because each controversy has been up to now strictly a local issue. Wikipedia provides a great service in providing perhaps the only comprehensive high level view of this debate.
- because people are obsessively collecting every instance of a swastika used in some heraldic device, emblem or building. The list is insanely detailed and tells us nothing beyond "the symbol was fashionable in Europe/North America ca. 1900-1930". If you are intrested in such a list, this page is for you, but beyond the general statement, it is simply not relevant to the swastika article. dab (𒁳) 14:03, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
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"Western use of the Swastika Prior to World War II"
