Swastika returns to Denver building days after window was smashed out
The Nazi symbol appeared in the top floor of the Congress Park building at Colfax and Josephine
A Denver window that displayed a swastika was smashed out on Tuesday. Yet days later, the symbol appears to have returned in a different window on the same building in the Congress Park neighborhood.
The window first drew attention on a Facebook group last week. The Denver Police Department said reports of its appearance were sent to its bias motivated crimes unit.
Police are investigating after the window was damaged early Tuesday morning.
And on Saturday, the Nazi symbol was seen in a different window of the same building. A Reddit post titled “They didn’t get the point” drew almost 80 comments as of 3:30 p.m.
Denver is not a place where Nazis are welcome, the original poster said, following it with “they didn’t learn the first time” in their post.
A moderator took to the comments begging users to stop “commenting about busting out this window.”
Two protesters were outside of the building Saturday afternoon voicing their displeasure with the symbol’s display.
The swastika is a symbol with heavy ties to Nazi Germany. In the 1930s and 1940s, it became the symbol of that country and to this day is an easily identifiable hate symbol, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

During World War II, the Nazi regime systematically murdered six million Jewish people. In their campaigns, Nazis murdered 11 million, including 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war and 1.8 million non-Jewish Poles, according to the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
The Denver Police Department has not responded to a request for comment as of 3:30 p.m.
Earlier Coverage from the Denver Gazette:
A photo of the Nazi symbol in the window was posted Sunday night in a Facebook group for the nearby Capitol Hill and Cheesman Park neighborhoods.
“Colfax and Josephine. Anyone able to take care of it?” the message said.
“A rock would do the trick,” replied another Facebook user.
The Denver Gazette independently obtained a photo showing the swastika in the window, which was above Hollywood’s Barber Shop at 2400 E. Colfax Ave.
A few people posted negative 1-star reviews on the barber shop’s Google business listing, complaining about the swastika in the window.
“As for the swastika symbol, we are not associated with that,” the business owner response said on the listing, adding someone else put it there.
An employee of the barber shop declined to comment to The Denver Gazette.
A patron of the barber shop, who declined to be identified, on Tuesday told The Denver Gazette that the barber shop reported the swastika to police, but didn’t want to raise any more negative attention. He said the person believed to have done it had been seen doing Nazi salutes on the corner sometimes and appeared to be mentally disabled.
Denver police ask anyone with any information about the damaged window to call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at (720) 913-7867.
Denver Gazette photojournalist Tom Hellauer and breaking news reporter Sage Kelley contributed to this report.





