I don't know when or why the Nazis adopted it, but you're right, it is a very old symbol. In fact it was used extensively by some native American nations, except they used one with the arms "bent" in the opposite direction, I believe theirs was counterclockwise, while the Nazi one was clockwise.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Houston, TX
charles nighbor <cnighbor@pacbell.net> wrote: Just a note when one reads "...wearing a jersey with a swastika on it..." The Swastika symbol goes back a very long ways is not a German only symbol. My friend did a paper on it it. He traced it back BC Were the Germans around then? Charles Nighbor Walnut Creek, CA