It said in the comic that the group of Irishmen were ex-IRA who'd hired on as mercenaries, but I noticed that detail was glossed over a bit in the film. The comics were written in the early 90's. Neither Frank Miller nor Robert Rodriguez is British.
The swastika is also an Asian symbol, and was most definitely not Nazi symbolism. You'll find swastikas in a lot of manga books, for instance. Sometimes, when those books are reprinted in English, they'll print a big disclaimer at the beginning explaining the Asian history of the mark.
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The swastika is also an Asian symbol, and was most definitely not Nazi symbolism. You'll find swastikas in a lot of manga books, for instance. Sometimes, when those books are reprinted in English, they'll print a big disclaimer at the beginning explaining the Asian history of the mark.