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Swastika Kai Tak

Submitted by IDJ on Fri, 2010-10-08 01:03

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1939

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The swastika was not too uncommon in Hong Kong in the 1930s. At Kai Tak the Lufthansa proving flights between Berlin and Tokyo carried a swastika on the tail fin. This SCMP image is from 2 May 1939. Similar aircraft of the German-Chinese airline Eurasia also displayed the swastika for a period until the Chinese government requested their removal. <Read more ...>