”And these Nordic peoples, who had long since lost all memory of their past, carried within themselves only one remnant: their idea of the gods, their longing, and their ethical philosophy and way of life. [...] The idea that the sun is depicted as a deity, circling the earth on a chariot with fiery horses, can only have originated in the north. Only there does the sun circle the rim of the horizon, only there can such a concept be born. And the same holds true for the swastika. It is the wheel of the sun that rolls from east to west-that is, from left to right-around the surface of the earth, which is inhabited by humans. That is why it seems wrong to you at once when the swastika's hooks point to the right rather than the left. Wherever the SUN GOD is represented in a chariot, and wherever we find this swastika used as a symbol—there we can assume Nordic peoples to have lived after the ice age drove them southward from their homes.”

- 𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐇𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐫
O. Wagener, Memoirs of a Confidant.