Arrow Cross

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The Arrow Cross (Nyilaskereszt) originated in Hungary in the 1930s as the symbol of the leading Hungarian fascist political party, the Arrow Cross Party, led by Ferenc Szálasi, an ex-army major. Leaders of National Council of the Arrow Cross after Szálasi included Jeno Szollosi, Josef Gera and Ferenc Kassai-Schallmajer. In 1939 it numbered close to 500,000 members and won 31 seats in parliamentary elections. The Arrow Cross party lasted until the end of World War II in 1945. Subsequently, the symbol came to be used by other racist and anti-Semitic groups. From October 1944 - January 1945 the Arrow Cross sent 80,000 Jews on a death march to the Austrian border.

It consisted of two black double-ended arrows in a cross configuration on a white circular background, much like the German Nazi swastika.

A similar symbol, the Crosstar, is now used by the Nationalist Movement, a white supremacist group based in the United States.

Both are basically the arrow cross symbol [1] that is traced back to ancient times and was used by Hungarian tribes in the middle ages[2].

In the traditional terminology of heraldry, this symbol was called a "cross barby" or "cross barbee".ca:Creu Fletxada