Nazi Use
Runic signs were used from the 1920s to 1945 on Schutzstaffel flags, uniforms and other items as symbols of various aspects of Nazi ideology and Germanic mysticism. They also represented virtues seen as desirable in SS members, and were based on German mystic Guido von List's Armanen runes, which he loosely based on the historical runic alphabets.
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