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[[Adolf Hitler]] adopted the swastika as the emblem for his Nazi Party; it was emblazoned with a counter-clockwise rotation within a white circle centered on a red field for his flag and tilted 45 degrees,<ref>[http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/34/3413.html http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/34/3413.html]</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4183467.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4183467.stm]</ref> becoming the national flag soon after he took power in 1933. The mass killings of Jews and other minorities by the Nazis occurred under swastika banner through the end of [[World War II]] in 1945, and since then the swastika has come to symbolize extreme hate. It is still used as such a symbol today by neo-Nazis in Europe and North America, as well as white-supremacist and other hate groups.
[[Adolf Hitler]] adopted the swastika as the emblem for his Nazi Party; it was emblazoned with a counter-clockwise rotation within a white circle centered on a red field for his flag and tilted 45 degrees,<ref>[http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/34/3413.html http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/34/3413.html]</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4183467.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4183467.stm]</ref> becoming the national flag soon after he took power in 1933. The mass killings of Jews and other minorities by the Nazis occurred under swastika banner through the end of [[World War II]] in 1945, and since then the swastika has come to symbolize extreme hate. It is still used as such a symbol today by neo-Nazis in Europe and North America, as well as white-supremacist and other hate groups.
Although the symbol was most infamously used by the Nazis, it was also initially considered to be used as a symbol for Communism and Socialism as a whole well before the foundation of the Nazis, with several Soviet units adopting the symbol shortly after [[World War I]] and even [[Vladimir Lenin]] toying with the idea of adopting the Swastika as a symbol for socialism.<ref>Albert L. Week, ''Stalin’s Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy'', 1939-1941, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002, p. 52.</ref>
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