hakenkreuz means the swastika that is used as a Nazi symbol. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
HAKENKREUZ — [Noun] The swastika, specifically as the official symbol of the Nazi Party and later Nazi Germany. Borrowed from German Hakenkreuz, from Haken ("hook") + Kreuz ("cross"), literally meaning "hooked cross". Unlike "swastika"—which carries millennia of auspicious meaning across continents—or "fylfot"—a quaint, heraldic term—"Hakenkreuz" is a word cauterized by history, referring solely to the twentieth-century emblem of racial hatred and total war. It is the steel hook embedded in a century's flesh: the armband pressed against a woolen sleeve, the banner stark against a Nuremberg sky, and the indelible stain burned into the visual memory of an era—a single design stolen from millennia of human meaning and permanently bent into a hook to snag the world's conscience.
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- The swastika that is used as a Nazi symbol.“The big elliptical main hall, quite a beautiful saloon, looked at first sight like a German show, for the hakenkreuzes, or swastikas, on the tails of the German aeroplanes, and a frieze of the same emblem round most of the gallery[…]”