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A cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction
Answer for the clue "A cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction ", 10 letters:
hakenkreuz
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Word definitions for hakenkreuz in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1931, proper German name for the Nazi swastika (q.v.), literally "hook-cross," from Old High German hako "hook," from Proto-Germanic *hoka- , from PIE *keg- "hook, tooth" (see hook (n.)).
Usage examples of hakenkreuz.
Germans called that thing a Hakenkreuz but ever since the Salzburg Congress of 1920, the so-called broken cross has been remembered as something entirely different!
The Greeks called it Tetraskelion and Gammadion, the Germans, Hakenkreuz.