theres a swastika on my mauser bolt handle?

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I have a 8mm BNZ 45 mauser that was an Israeli used gun. its all mixed parts. but from what I gather these guns after the war were refurbed in CZ and then sent to Israel. I was looking at the parts and I noticed there is a swastika on the bolt handle. I know the Chinese guns had swastikas but would there have been a Chinese handle in CZ after WW2? does anyone know of this?
its a little hard to see but its just under the flat part of the handle were the numbers are on they are a big D over 559.

 
The German K98's had little swastikas in nooks and crannies. I have an action with one in the serial number (didn't make it onto the registration certificate). My best guess is that it's one that got missed when the Isrealis 'sanitized' all the German Mausers the Allies sent them when they formed the country after the war. Most swastikas were ground off. (Can't blame them). It's also possible that someone replaced the bolt with another old German one somewhere along the line.
 
Swastika is backwards. Its Chinese. Not the same meaning as the nazi swastika. I think for the Chinese it meant immortality and you see it stamped on all sorts of Chinese made parts from stocks to rear sight leafs.
 
I was looking up online and it looks like the swastika is backwards. would that mean its Chinese? I would think its german only because why would CZ use a chinese bolt unless some one put this on at a later time? the only other marking is on the opposite side there is a letter A.
 
I believe in some Asian cultures the square swastika, (opposed to the diamond), is a symbol of balance or harmony, akin to yin yang.
 
JTF# said:
I was looking up online and it looks like the swastika is backwards. would that mean its Chinese? I would think its german only because why would CZ use a chinese bolt unless some one put this on at a later time? the only other marking is on the opposite side there is a letter A.
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If it was refurbed post war by the Czechs and sold to Israel it would have left the Czech factory with a bent bolt as all k98k's have. Some where down the line this Chinese bolt was swapped into it for who knows what reason.

If it were mine, I'd probably source a proper bent bolt for it. Some of the Chinese made parts are pretty poor quality as well. Not all of them, but some definitely are.
 
Didn't N.Vietnam receive number of german small arms from China early in the war?

Comie China had (maybe still do) large stocks of arms captured from nationalist Chinese army.
 
Also North Vietnam received russian capture K98s. But this was before the russians refinished them. So matching or close to it, but verified ones are usually poor condition.
 
The swastika was a very old symbol long before the Nazi's it. Seen and used as a good luck thing is many cultures. North American natives for one.
"...would there have been..." Highly likely and obivously so. The bolt isn't an easy manufacturing thing.
 
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