Originally posted by lammie200 I believe that it is also an old American Indian symbol. My grandmother's wedding china that was made in Ohio had swastikas around their perimeters. Personally I was always a bit creeped out about it, but she served food on them until she became incapicitated.
Wrong sort of Indian - it's actually from ancient India, not the one that Columbus thought he'd found, although variants are found in other cultures. The Nazi swastika faces the opposite way to the majority of Indian ones.