Darlinghurst Nights » Nazi graffiti http://darlinghurstnights.com Darlinghurst Nights Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:08:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Nazi graffiti in Darlinghurst – an update http://darlinghurstnights.com/2010/01/nazi-graffiti-in-darlinghurst-an-update/ http://darlinghurstnights.com/2010/01/nazi-graffiti-in-darlinghurst-an-update/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:14:31 +0000 bt http://darlinghurstnights.com/?p=2286 About this time last year, almost to the day, one of our readers spotted would-be Nazi graffiti on the road in Darlinghurst. Then this appeared over the weekend, near the old toilet block at Taylor Square.

But as one of our readers, Tony, noted in the comments at the time:

Well, actually, this is not a nazi cross (Swastika) at all. The real cross is the other way around (mirrored image).

This ‘reversed Swastika’ can be found in numerous places:

  1. The Nydam Bog (look at the bottom of the page).
  2. A buddhist temple
  3. The flag of the city Hirosaki, in Japan

So we could be facing a very angry Danish from the year 200AD, a peaceful buddhist monk, a Japanese backpacker eager to come back to Oz… or an angry (and probably drunk) kid that doesn’t even know what he’s talking about. Place your bets ;-)

So there you have it, and it’s reappeared at the tail end of another summer holiday.

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