[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (neil_s_wood @ 28 Sep 2008, 02:06) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I do remember discussing this a year or so ago and the swastika is ba(although there is a Liliput {Austrian owned by Chinese company} BR05 which has it).

My Liliput 05 (Austrian made one) has the swasrika's as well as the Olympic Rings on the tender.

 

[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (poliss @ 16 Oct 2008, 21:12) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>The United Kingdom is in the Eurpoean Union. The swastika is not banned here. As far as I know the only country that has a total ban is France. I think it is allowed in Germany for historical purposes only and is banned only for political and propaganda purposes.

This is, AFAIK the correct situation, although I'm not too certain about France (I thought that anything non-French was banned there TIC) - in fact, if I remember correctly the E19 in the Nurnberg Transport Museum has the eagle crest on the front complete with swastika - allowed as this is a historical locomotive.

 

[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (Doug @ 16 Oct 2008, 23:05) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>As some may know, it is actually a very old symbol used in Asia for thousands of years. The symbol can be found over the entrances of temples in India. Anti-clockwise (like the swastika) for feminine Gods and clockwise for masculine Gods. Some say that if the symbol used by the Nazis was reversed, it would have had more symbolic power.
A fact that many, many people are unaware of (we were actually taught about it at school).