Arrow Cross

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Arrow Cross is a heraldic symbol that looks like a cross with two green double-ended arrows on a white circle set against a red background. Historically, in heraldry it’s called a cross barbée, and in Christian art the ends were seen as fish hooks. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Arrow Cross was used by a far-right Hungarian party led by Ferenc Szálasi, and by its violent paramilitary group. Because of this history, the symbol is outlawed in Hungary today. Variants and similar symbols have appeared in other countries, including the Crosstar used by the U.S. white-supremacist Nationalist Movement; a modified version of the Portuguese Cross used by Brazil’s Patrianovist Imperial Action (1928–1937); and it was used by the Falange Venezolana in Venezuela.