I'm fairly sure that it is a symbol that was meant to evoke Germany's
pagan past. As were the powerful operas of Wagner and the popularity of
teutonic myth in the art of the time-- creating a strong sense of nation
and a purely german history.
The swastika and many cross-like symbols like it represent the sun. I
don't know what it symbolizes in hinduism, but in Germanic an Carpathian
cultures it is almost always the sun.
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