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TIL that the popular Nazi symbol is the Hooked Cross, a christian symbol. And not the Swastika, the eastern symbol. One of the places from Hitler's childhood includes a Benedictine Monastery in Austria which had used the Crooked Cross symbol from at least 1869

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