use of swastika
Halsten Aastebol
Halsten.Aastebol at elkraft.ntnu.no
Mon Feb 5 09:54:49 CET 2001
At 09:37 05.02.01 +0100, Ola Martinsson wrote:
>A large and very well known company, the Swedish ASEA, nowadays known as
>ABB, actually had a swastika as their symbol. The swastika was read and
>the four letters ASEA was placed one in each field of the swastika. The
>swastika was not rotated. That is, there was no point pointing upwards.
>The symbol was changed after or during the war, I don't know which.
Actually, I think it was changed as early as 1933 when Hitler came to power.
Halsten
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