mills responded to the allegations by fax and his responses were incorporated in the article. mills admitted having played at "global deception", but claimed not to have fully understood the nature of the event. he indicated that he now felt that the swastika, which has origins outside nazism and different meanings in different parts of the world, was hopelessly connected to nazism in the west. he indicated that it was the outrage that his comments had sparked that had led him to this conclusion. he also offered an unequivocal condemnation of far-right-wing ideology.