Esoteric insignia of the Schutzstaffel

Insignia based on runes used by the Nazi paramilitary group

The esoteric insignia of the Schutzstaffel (known in German as the SS-Runen) were used from the 1920s to 1945 on Schutzstaffel (SS) 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 völkisch mystic Guido von List's pseudo-runic Armanen runes, which he loosely based on the historical runic alphabets. Some of these insignias continue to be used by neo-Nazi individuals and groups.

SS symbols are commonly used by neo-Nazis today.^[1]

Pseudo-runes used by the SS

Other esoteric symbols used by the SS

As well as List's Armanen runes, the SS used a number of other esoteric symbols. These included:

See also

• Nazi symbolism
• Nazism and occultism

References

1. "Extreme Right Wing symbols, numbers, and acronyms" (PDF). Greater Manchester Police. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
2. Yenne 2010, p. 68.
3. Lumsden 1993, p. 18.
4. Yenne 2010, p. 71.
5. Lumsden 1993, p. 15.
6. Yenne 2010, p. 26.
7. Yenne 2010, p. 27.
8. Hermann Schwarz, Gott jenseits von theismus und pantheismus, Junker und Dünnhaupt, 1928.[1]
9. Robert Ley, Organisationsbuch der NSDAP (1943)[2].
10. Lumsden 1993, p. 19.
11. Lumsden 1993, p. 27.

Sources

• Lumsden, Robin (1993). The Allgemeine-SS. Osprey Publishing. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-85532-358-2.
• Yenne, Bill (2010). Hitler's Master of the Dark Arts: Himmler's Black Knights and the Occult Origins of the SS. Zenith Imprint. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-7603-3778-3.^{[unreliable source?]}