Date: October 17th, 2018 12:45 PM
Author: cowardly field
they are not strictly the same. difference in orientation etc
as for as why - swastika was an aryan (indo-european) symbol so was used widely across central asia/india
nazis claimed descent from aryans/indo-europeans so they were trying to remind people of that legacy
indo-europeans is just a sanitized lib name for aryans and nobody disputes that germans/scandis have significant aryan heritage
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108837&forum_id=2#37042370)