Hi Rene,

Thank you too for your readership. In short, by the time Hitler transformed the DAP ( Deutsches Arbeiter Partei ) into his own NSDAP, the use of the swastika by the far-right wing movements was now commonplace. Hitler’s originality was to monopolize the use of the symbol and to eliminate competitors like Sebottendorff. He appropriated the volkish themes for his own profit to ride the wave of ultra nationalism started by the Treaty of Versailles and the French occupation of the Ruhr. This explains why Hitler banned Sebottendorff when he tried to come back to Germany from Turkey in 1934. To the German people, Hitler appeared as the creator of the icons of German nationalism, when he merely stole the concepts from his predecessors.