Google Earth reveals swastika-shaped navy barracks

May Satan bless the sole of the architect, for he was subconsiously given a mission to construct a symbol of freedom and the right to rule the world to the aryian race. Ironically it is the residence of the great and just Adolf Hitlers evil enemys naval powers.

all jews should be burned alive for the disgusting human beings that they are. manipulating creatures who prey on the weak. for the last thousands of years the jews got by on screwing over the good hearted hard working man. These filthy scum bags shoud have been dipped in sulfuric acid one by one. are you serious 600,000 to reshape a building that looks like a swastika from aboe. are you serious? in this economoy? end hunger in a state for that money. Do something good besides that. What you do not know is jews control all the money. If only hitler had succeeded in wiping them out...Ill keep praying for the next hitler.

man this is the coolest building ive ever seen y would u want to camoflauge it??? im gonna build my house like this one day....oh and whoever is a jew or a nigger can go fuck themselves!!!! WHITE POWER!!! HAIL HITLER!!!

There goes the victimization crowd again calling the U.S. a racist nation

But then again, all of this controversy could've been avoided if the Navy barracks were structured liked the buildings beside it.

When you look at the two airplane-shaped buildings directly south of the swastika building and the recreational space directly north of the building, one can easily picture American bombers reducing Nazi Germany to ruin. Copy and paste these coordinates into Google Earth to see for yourself: 32 40 34.06N, 117 09 27.78W. It's too bad the Navy is spending 600k taxpayer dollars to erase such a patriotic aerial work of art.

Swastikas were used long before Hitler used them and it's quite ignorant that America as a country doesn't know anything about the history of religions other than Christianity. Get some culture.

I heard of this years ago, but was unable to learn anything more. The official story then was that the navy brass was unaware of it.

Have you ever heard of a government building anywhere that didn't have its floor plan posted publicly on the walls in a number of spots? Obviously they knew, they knew back when the plans were just plans, and they went ahead anyway.

Now they got caught.

Unfucking believeable! Are we allowed to say that? I wonder who the doofus architects were? Adolf, Hermann & Fritz? I'm sure our Crack Senate Investigating Committee will get right on it.

If I'm reading the image correctly, it's four "L" shaped buildings. So, things like the fire escape plans would not have shown the swastika nature of the group. Still, I'm sure thousands of people have passed through and figured it out over the years. Any idea when these were built?

As a Jew, I have very little trouble being pretty unmoved by this.

Then again, I'm a really bad Jew.

Could it just be that certain design decisions necessitated this design. Military architects love radial symmetry, maybe something required these rays to be bent. Yeah they knew what it would look like but before google earth how many people would have noticed?

What I heard was that they were aware of the shape of the building when it was being built. At the time, they decided to leave it because it was only visable from the air (obviously before Google Earth).

Seriously, does anyone really think they did this on purpose?

Well, perhaps they were hindu. Or Buddhist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

I once met this awesome girl from india, but one day I saw her sketching out a swastika, and I had a large knee-jerk reaction. Now, I don't. It's just a fucking symbol. If people want to use it in the hitlerian context, piss them off by refering to it in the eastern religion context.

Yeah, nazi's are so superior they can't even come up with their own unique symbol.

Y'know, the swastika was a common symbol before the Nazis decided to use it. Should we then abolish all uses of the symbol?

What about triskelions? They're almost like swastikas.

I am amused.
It is my pleasure to direct a brief viewing of the Wikipedia entry regarding the multicultural existence of the swastika symbol. As provocative as this architectural design is, there may well be more to consider than its significance as a crude hand gesture to modern history.

These are four separate buildings which were constructed in 1967.

What is the big deal here?

okay, some buildings in a navy base are arranged in the shape of a swastika.... so what? is everything that resembles something "evil" in certain contexts going to be banned?

too much fuss over something that the architect probably did not even realize, that his buildings were going to be interpreted as a subliminal message pro-nazism.....

please...

True the symbol was in use before the Germans adopted it, it should still have not been used because of its recent reference and the fact that children of the Halocaust and their surviving parents do not want to relate the American Navy to something as sinister as this.It is an awful reminder and an example of arrogant architectural planning.

read "The Nazi Connection with Shambhala and Tibet" by Alexander Berzin; there is no random 'coincidence' and no, it wasn't because Hitler's graphics artists couldn't make up their own logo, it was because they believed themselves to be the mythical "master race" who originated the symbol, the expropriation was entirely intentional on their part, and the lack of objections by the Buddhists were, apparently, equally as intentional as they truly felt (at the time) that their best chances for themselves (facing China) were to align with the wacky Germans and hope for their support.

They were both wrong, of course, but nonetheless, there was no mere coincidence of their ensigns.

Here is other "Swastikas" on Google Earth

I'd say "what a waste of $600,000" (to alter a perfectly structurally fine building because, from the sky and in a way you can only see if you click a certain webpage or fly over it), it looks like a symbol), but then again the military wastes that every few seconds, so how can I even bother?

why is everyone getting so worked up about something so insegnificant as a symbol that originaly means good luck. yah thats right the swastika is an ancient far east symbol like buddhist or hindu. the natzi's found that symbol on ancient germany pottery and called it their own. so the swastika means good luck. people are complaining that it promotes natziesm or some crap like that. maybe it was built before the natzi's rose to power and afterward thought nobody would notice or care. but they could not forsee the amazing level of stupidity and arrogance of some americans today. it bogles my mind that people shuld expect the United States Government which is currently in a war wich has put us in trillions of dollers in debt shuld just spend 600,000 dollers of wich it does not have to appeal to such an insegnificant thing as this. if i have offend some people sorry this is america I have freedom of speach.

If anyone had bothered to follow up, and even look at the lower left part of the pic, it was done on purpose - and there are buildings shaped like bombers headed towards the swastika!

The swastika is an ancient symbol for ex, the sungod and luck

Hey guys. Last year I moved away from that base after working there for 6 years. Not only did I work on the base, but I lived in that building, and I also worked at that building. The whole time I was there, the building was the joke of the base. Nobody really knows why everyone is freaking out. You may hear stories of german POW's building them, but all the stories are just that. The only fact that's being told is that it was originally designed to allow all the rooms to have windows and also have some landscaping for people to enjoy. There are no SEALs in that building, nor do they have anything to do with it. It was also not designed to offend anybody.

There are two buildings on the compounds of the German Secret Services resembling Nazi symbols. On is found at Pullach near Munich. There are several buildings shaped like a cross similar to it is formed by the bricks