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In Oslo we have a central building with Swastikas in an iron gate. Of course, the building was finished in the thirties, back when a Swastika still only had its old Hindu meaning: A sun symbol. The building was & is the head office of the Oslo Electric Light Company (Oslo Lysverker, Oslo "Lightworks"). Since electricity provides light, its rather fitting. Of course, ever so often an ahistoric person writes an incensed letter to a paper calling for the removal of these "nazi" symbols…

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