Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
UEFA announced today that Croatia will be docked a point, fined €100,000, and forced to play two Euro qualifiers behind closed doors after they played their last Euro qualifier with a swastika etched onto the pitch.
The German National Socialist's symbol was not a "swastika" in that the German socialists did not call their symbol a "swastika." They called their symbol a "Hakenkreuz," which means "hooked cross" because their symbol was a type of cross. It was also not a swastika in that Adolf Hitler and his followers used it to…