The Swastika
Subtitle: Constructing the Symbol (Material Cultures)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 5, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780415100953
First sentence: Visitors in search of diversion and instruction at the Paris Exposition of 1889 might have been intrigued by an unusual display at the Palais des Artes Liberaux, where a Polish librarian named Michael Zmigrodski had arranged drawings of over 300 objects, each bearing a swastika or, as he put it 'an ornament which I believe to have a swastikal origin'.