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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.
Generic synonyms: Tetraskele, Tetraskelion, Allegory, Emblem
Geographical relationships: Deutschland, Federal Republic Of Germany, Frg, Germany
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hakenkreuz
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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