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Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!cast0.ast.cam.ac.uk!ale
From: ale@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Ale Terlevich)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Nazi Imagary in Doom
Date: 1 Sep 1994 12:46:38 GMT
Organization: Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
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References: <777090004snz@sir1.demon.co.uk> <CutDqn.GFz@chinet.chinet.com> <Cuw56n.6Kx@discus.technion.ac.il> <33vfql$evj@news1.digex.net>
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In article <33vfql$evj@news1.digex.net>, jburkot@access2.digex.net (moondog) writes:
|>
|> : I noted it too. I was wondering why ID put it. I didn't want to fall into
|> : another paranoid state where everywhere are Nazis hidden. In Wolfenstein
|> : it was justified, but in Phobos... well, who knows...
|>
|> The swastika was around long before the Nazi's. It was a withcraft symbol
|> that just happened to be used by Nazi Germany. (Coincidence?) dunno.
|> I think ID was going with the witchcraft/demon meaning not the Nazi angle.
|>
Yeah, right, and how many other witchcraft/demon symbols have you seen
cluttered around?
The swastika is a very strong nazi symbol. Hardly anyone even knows about
it's witchcraft side, surely if id wanted a purely demonic symbol they could
have picked something more appropriate, like a pentagram?
Ale.