Years ago, my then BF and another couple went hiking up in the mountains. We came upon this really cute, unusually shaped cottage tucked away near the top of the mountain. Since there was no car in front of the house and no garage for a car, we assumed the place was empty.
We just had to take a peek through the windows to see what the layout looked like inside. What we saw was a huge 20 foot, Nazi flag hanging above the fireplace, in the center of the livingroom.
Well, images of any horror film entered my head, of the the Neo-Nazi skinheads suddenly driving up the driveway and seeing us there, having found their skinhead hiding place.

When I finally found my voice, I said, "We need to get out of here! I don't want to be around if anybody comes home."
There was also no other way away from the house, except down the drive, as there was vast cliffs on all sides. Think of another Hitchcock film with the hero hanging off the side of Mt. Rushmore.
After staring through the window, in shock for several moments, one of the couple said, "Wait, I don't think that's Nazi flag! The swastika is going in the other direction."
It is well known that Hitler appropriated religious and spiritual symbols and icons from other cultures, then altered them slightly for his own symbology. I was not up on which direction the Nazi swastika goes in or if that one was turned the other way. The Internet hadn't been invented yet, so it wasn't like I could go home and look it up. Nor was I interested in trooping down to library later to find out.
There was other nature, possibly native American artifacts decorating the house, so it was possible they did use it the way an ancient swastika was used, for other non-Nazi purposes. But, it also seemed strange to me that it was in the center of a red flag with a white circle.
Either way, we quickly high-tailed it out of there.
