This is not a separate work: it is the Anti-Defamation League's own catalogue entry for the sonnenrad in its "Hate on Display" Hate Symbols Database, one entry in the same continuously maintained institutional catalogue this atlas also records as a general source. It descends from that database rather than standing beside it, so citing this entry alongside the general Hate Symbols Database record, or alongside another of its entries, is one institutional voice, not corroboration. Its real limit is the database's own limit: an advocacy organization's working catalogue for identifying a symbol's adoption by extremist movements, not a neutral academic history of the symbol. Use it for whether the sonnenrad is currently catalogued as a hate symbol and the ADL's own stated account of its adoption by Nazi Germany and later use by white supremacist groups; a claim about the symbol's older meaning in Bronze Age or medieval European ornament needs a source produced outside this database.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier2
The Anti-Defamation League's own catalogue entry for the sonnenrad, the middle tier reflecting an advocacy organization's working catalogue for identifying extremist symbol adoption, weighed against its direct authority for whether the symbol is currently catalogued as a hate symbol. A claim about the symbol's older meaning needs a source produced outside this database. NotesStates both that the specific Nazi-derived twelve-rayed design is almost always a white supremacist symbol and that most sun wheel designs are unrelated to hate.
Citation
AuthorAnti-Defamation League
PublisherAnti-Defamation League
URLhttps://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/sonnenrad
Source Typereference
Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Germany directly: "stated account of its adoption by Nazi Germany and later use by white supremacist groups; a claim about the symbol's older meaning in Bronze Age or medieval European ornament needs a source produced..."
Derived From
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 1 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 connected.
- Religious Symbols, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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