{"id":13687,"date":"2014-08-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/08\/02\/bbc-documentary-the-story-of-the-swastika\/"},"modified":"2014-08-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T12:00:00","slug":"bbc-documentary-the-story-of-the-swastika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/08\/02\/bbc-documentary-the-story-of-the-swastika\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Documentary: The Story of the Swastika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ocf8Nlq5Xiw<\/p>\n<p>LONDON, ENGLAND, May 13, 2014 (BBC): At last, the BBC has produced an excellent video explaining how Hitler hijacked the swastika&#8211;a symbol of auspiciousness used by ancient cultures worldwide and held sacred by Hindus&#8211;and distorted its meaning so that the Western world now regards it with fear and loathing, as a symbol of hatred and genocide. Footage of Nazi Germany is contrasted with the swastika&#8217;s uses and significance in Hindu culture and religious observances. Although the narrator doubts we can ever effect a complete recovery (even saying that Hitler &#8220;changed the perception of the swastika in the West forever&#8221;), the video ends on a very positive note, hypothesizing the day when each child&#8217;s early exposure to the swastika will be in terms of its traditional, benevolent uses and meanings&#8211;and the later knowledge of Hitler&#8217;s misuse of it will be met with the same sense of sock, horror and outrage that Hindus themselves feel. &#8220;And if we can get to that point, then Hitler will have finally been defeated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ocf8Nlq5Xiw LONDON, ENGLAND, May 13, 2014 (BBC): At last, the BBC has produced an excellent video explaining how Hitler hijacked,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}