Dancing With The Stars Human Swastika

Sometime Fox tries to slip a human swastika into one of its most highly ranked shows. Here we see Marlee Matlin performing the top half of a two person human swastika. Shame, Fox, shame.

Found via BlogDig.

Habbo Hotel Human Swastika

Habbo Hotel is a social networking website geared towards children and teenagers. This still image shows member of Anonymous causing havoc inside the game/website. The full video can be seen here (human swastika at about 2:19).

Winter Human Swastika

Most human swastikas occur during the summer, this is one of the rare winter examples of the phenomena.

Found via hbiggs7.

Soccer Human Swastika

You may think he’s going for the ball, but he’s not, he’s going for a subtle, on-field human swastika. We’re on to you Crouch, we’re on to you.

Found via Musings of a Student.

Old Timey Human Swastika

The photo is of Conrad Veidt from Wacky Wunderkind and dates from 1928. He’s a forerunner of all our modern human swastika creators.

Found via The Silent Movie Blog.

Four Person Parking Lot Human Swastika

Using four people is an interesting innovation. I wonder what other numbers of people can be used to form a swastika. This opens up limitless opportunities for future human swastika expansion.

Found via the Bonfire Bust.

Laying Down Human Swastika

She’s lying down, and her arms aren’t quite right, but you can tell she’s almost got it. Just a few more years of practice and she too will be able to perform the human swastika.

Found via rebevaca.

Ninja Human Swastika

The one place you never expect to see a human swastika is in the midst of a flying, video-game style karate kick, but sometimes there it is.

Found via DCU Martial Arts Club.

Fantastic Fest Human Swastika

They’re not quite doing it right, their arms are bending the wrong way, but you can see that they’re trying.

Found via stomptokyo.

Croatian Soccer Fans Form Human Swastika

Croatian soccer fans are a cruel, cruel bunch. This is how they amuse themselves in the stands.

Found via The Sun.

Ann Coulter Human Swastika

Now, Ann Coulter probably can’t really do this herself, but somehow online she’s managed to find a unique and surprising way to construct a human swastika. In intrigued.

Found at DailyKos.

The Original Nazi Human Swastika

This photo, from 1933, presumably shows a German military unit posed in the form of the Nazi swastika. 1933 was the year that Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, the Reichstag was burned, and Hitler’s rise to complete control of Germany was solidified, so perhaps the soldiers were celebrating one or more of those events with the human swastika.

The human swastika has been with us a long time, going farther back than Hitler’s Third Reich. Sometimes it is formed by hundreds of men, as seen above, and sometimes it is done by just one man in a surprising twist of the human body. The swastika’s use for evil is well known, but the fact that humanity has often formulated this symbol with its own bodies and limbs is often overlooked.

This blog will track the history and usage of the human swastika–from a few pre-German artifacts through the Third Reich and forward to today’s reality television–if you look hard enough you’ll see human swastikas everywhere.

It’s a troubling, troubling world.