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[quote=Anonymous]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
[quote]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.[/quote][/quote]

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