A suburban Atlanta school district said it would scrap a proposed elementary school logo whose eagle design critics said evoked images of Nazi insignia. The reversal followed complaints from area Jewish residents, including the executive director of a synagogue across the street from the school.
The proposed logo for East Side Elementary School in Marietta, Georgia, depicted a silhouette of an eagle, head facing right, and the letters ”ES” below.
Local parents and Jewish community leaders pointed out that the school logo was evocative of the “Nazi Eagle” insignia adopted by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party led by Adolf Hitler and responsible for the deaths of more than 6 million Jews and others in concentration camps during World War II.