If it it truly as fake, I wouldn’t disagree, but when I saw the ornament, I was immediately reminded of ornaments I grew up with, purchased by my parents in the early 1950s in Germany, and rather cherished by us as children because they were unique & interesting. The swastika ornament is shaped just like a basket of fruit ornament I remember. If real, tacky yes, but personally I could see it being real……
So we have someone who actually grew up in Germany nearly 70 years ago remembering something similar.
Christmas in the Nazi regime
Nazi ideologists claimed that the Christian elements of the holiday had been superimposed upon ancient Germanic traditions.
[7] They argued that
Christmas Eve originally had nothing to do with the
birth of Jesus Christ, but instead celebrated the
winter solstice and the 'rebirth of the sun',
[7] that the
swastika was an ancient symbol of the
sun, and that
Santa Claus was a Christian reinvention of the Germanic god
Odin. Accordingly, holiday
posters were made to depict Odin as the "Christmas or Solstice man", riding a white charger, sporting a thick grey beard and wearing a slouch hat, carrying a sack full of gifts. The traditional
crèche was replaced by a garden containing wooden toy deer and rabbits; Mary and Jesus were depicted as a blonde mother and child.
[7]
The Christmas tree was also changed. The traditional names of the tree,
Christbaum or
Weihnachtsbaum, was renamed in the press as a fir tree, light tree or Jul tree.
The star on the top of the tree was sometimes replaced with a swastika, a Germanic sun wheel or a sig rune, and swastika-shaped tree lights.
[7][8][9] During the height of the movement, an attempt was made to remove the association of the coming of Jesus and replace it with the coming of Hitler, referred to as the "
Saviour Führer".
[7] (my emphasis)
en.wikipedia.org
So we have swastikas, sig runes, and Germanic sun wheels on Nazi Xmas trees. Also notice the age patina on the steel hook and cap parts.
