The Real History of the Swastika: Thousands of Years as a Sign of Well-Being, and the Movement That Seized It in 1920

Let's go to a doorway. Somewhere in India, in 2026, a family is opening a new house, and someone draws a four-armed, bent-limbed shape at the entrance, the way it has been drawn at doorways, weddings and new beginnings for thousands of years. For them it has only ever meant good fortune. Somewhere else on the same planet, a tilted black, white and red version of that shape is the emblem of the regime that carried out the Holocaust. So how can both of those be true? I will walk you through it from zero: what the word means, how far back the shape goes, what the Nazi party did with it in 1920, and who documents both halves. Two easy answers are wrong, and I will tell you why, without softening either end.