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When Heinrich Schliemann discovered swastika motifs, he wrote to the German Indologist Max Müller, the translator of the RigVeda, who, quoting Burnouf, confirmed this distinction, adding that "the svastika was originally a symbol of the sun, perhaps of the vernal sun as opposed to the autumnal sun, the sauvastika, and, therefore, a natural symbol of light, life, health, peace and wealth". The letter was published in Schliemann's book Ilios (1880).

Their work later found purchase within the German Volkish movement, an ethnic and nationalist organisation that believed in the myth of an “original nation” comprised of people of a singular racial essence. Both Hitler and Goebbels were deeply influenced by Volkish ideology and, in the 1920s, began using the swastika as the symbol of an eternal German Aryan master race.

Funny thing is, there's not a single photo or artifact from Pseudo-Troy showing these swastikas outside of Schliemann's drawings. I wouldn't be surprised if the bastard just lied. But the history of this shitty symbol is pretty confusing. Oldest swastika is from Ukraine, next swastikas are also from Ukraine and the Balkans, but they are produced by completely different peoples. Early steppe cultures do not use swastikas, no swastikas in Yamnaya, Sredni Stog or Corded Ware. Then swastikas reappear in Sintashta and Andronovo.