Definition of Hakenkreuz

1. Noun. The official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction.

Exact synonyms: Swastika
Generic synonyms: Tetraskele, Tetraskelion, Allegory, Emblem
Geographical relationships: Deutschland, Federal Republic Of Germany, Frg, Germany

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hakenkreuz

Hainaut
Haiphong
Haiti
Haitian
Haitian Creole
Haitian Vodoun Culture Language
Haitian capital
Haitian centime
Haitian monetary unit
Haitians
Hakea
Hakea laurina
Hakea leucoptera
Haken
Hakenkreuz (current term)
Hakham
Hakka
Hakka dialect
Hakkanese
Hakkapeliitta
Hakkapeliittas
Hakkas
Hakkoz
Hakluytian
Hakomi
Halabja
Halacha
Halachas
Halachos

Literary usage of Hakenkreuz

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"... on the bier supported by the bearers is a Swastika, for which we have in English no popular name like the German “Hakenkreuz.” There does not seem to be ..."

2. A Crisis of the Weimar Republic: A Study of the German Referendum of 20 June by Franklin C. West (1985)
"34-36; Henning Duderstadt, Vom Reichsbanner zum Hakenkreuz (Stuttgart, 1933), pp. 13, 114. The tendency had already been criticized before the war, ..."

3. A Scientific German Reader by Herbert Zabriskie Kip (1916)
"... n. covering of hair Haarnetz, n. net for the hair, net- cap haben (hatte, gehabt), to have Haken, m. hook Hakenkreuz, n. fylfot (cf. note 18, 20) halb, ..."

4. Water Colours of Hitler: Recovered Art Works by Enzo Collotti, Riccardo Mariani (2005)
"... unterm Hakenkreuz in Hamburg (1983). F. ROH, op. cit., pp. 56-57; R. MERKER, op. cit., p. 155. ..."

5. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (1896)
"... aber dio Darstellung selbst muss unser grossies Interesse erregen, da sie eine ganze Reihe von Hakenkreuz-Motiven enthält. ..."

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