Reclaiming a symbol of hate ANTHONY T. EATON | Contributing Writer8anthonyeaton@gmail.com Humans have used symbols and iconography to communicate and to identify things going back to when someone made the first drawings on cave walls.
Using symbols to communicate pre-dates language and the written word, but symbols remained in use even after language became commonplace.
This includes symbols and icons used to identify, segregate, promote intolerance and hate for groups of people. Such usage was especially true when it came to the persecution and systematic targeting of minorities by the Nazis under Hitler.
The SS created a unique classification system to identify those they wanted to target: Jews who had to wear a yellow Star of David,