LL-L: "Symbols" LOWLANDS-L, 29.JUL.2000 (01) [E]

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From: Roger Thijs [roger.thijs at village.uunet.be]
Subject: symbols

Did the "svastika" ever have some kind of symbol value in the lowlands,
before it became the symbol of the NSDAP in Germany?

I'm asking this, since I found the symbol, as "logo" of a publisher, on the

cover on a book, I bought second hand:

De Haven van Antwerpen en haar Werking,
door J. Coopman adjunct-havenkapitein,
Met Woord Vooraf door Fritz Franken
43 Lichtteekeningen van J.E. Wygaerts
en 28 Penteekeningen van
Jos. Van Eeckhoven
*** svastika sign ***
(publisher(s?):)
De Nederlandsche Boekhandel, Antwerpen
(and?:)
Uitgave "__Svastika__", Antwerpen, De Bomstraat, 38

The book is not dated.
The "inleiding" is signed J.C.,    Antwerpen, __October 1926__

At the time I can hardly imagine Hitler had influence in Antwerp
(especially
at the level of the direction of the harbor).
B.t.w. the "Nederlandsche Boekhandel" still exists, it moved from Antwerp
to
the suburb Kapellen about a year ago (part of their books are published as
by: "Uitgeverij Pelckmans").

"Lichtteekeningen" are clearly photographs. Th book dates from a period,
people over here wrote in a "hyper"-Dutch, avoiding any French vocabulary.

Regards,

Roger

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