15 Jun
2011
15 Jun
'11
8:09 a.m.
At 5:37 AM +0000 6/15/11, vintagecoder at aol.com wrote:
I don't the history of the symbol itself but I have
read in a few places it
was a sign of good luck (apparently not for everybody, though) before it
was used by the Nazis.
There is that, there is also the possibility that no one really
thought anything of it. I've had the book sitting on a shelf for
years, and my wife just noticed it. Of course the shelf has only
been visable for about 2 years, but...
Zane
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