Terrible real estate agent photos - does that bathroom REALLY have a tile swastika in it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not saying that the agent shouldn't have taken care of this problem but there are cases of swastikas being used in tile and other aspects of architecture long before they became associated with the Nazis. For example, President Garfield's tomb in Cleveland has swastika tiles. More from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_use_of_the_swastika_in_the_early_20th_century

Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates from the Neolithic period and was first found in the Indus Valley Civilization of the Indian subcontinent. The swastika (gammadion, "fylfot") symbol became (as it had long been in the Asian World) a popular symbol of luck in the Western world in the early 20th century. Although the Nazi Party adopted the symbol in the 1920s, it continued in use in Western countries with its original meaning until the Nazi association became dominant in the 1930s. The term swastika is first attested in English in 1871, and first refers to the Nazi emblem in 1932.

My university had some old tiles with swasticas but those clearly predate the nazi appropriation. This is pretty blatantly nazi.

Oh sorry, I hadn't actually looked at the picture. I just remember seeing the tiles at Garfield's tomb so I assumed it was similar. But upon looking at the picture, I see that you are right. Never mind!