The three arrows emblem was designed in 1932 in Weimar Germany for the anti-Nazi political group the Iron Front. I’ve adopted it as a general Anti-Fascist symbol, for these troubled times.
The image above is a photograph of a pewter pin which I wear clipped to my jacket. I also have a black embroidered patch with the same symbol attached to the front of my go-bag, and a sticker on my water bottle.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Arrows:
The Three Arrows (German: Drei Pfeile) is a social democratic political symbol associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), used in the late history of the Weimar Republic. First conceived for the SPD-dominated Iron Front as a symbol of the social democratic resistance against Nazism in 1932, it became an official symbol of the Party during the November 1932 German federal election, representing their opposition towards monarchism, Nazism, and communism.
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) was opposed by both the Nazi Party (NSDP) and the Communist Party (KPD). In this setting, the SPD organizer Carlo Mierendorff recruited Russian exiled physiologist Sergei Chakhotin as the propagandist of the paramilitary Iron Front, and together they developed propaganda initiatives to counter the NSDP and the KPD in early 1932. The two launched the Three Arrows as a symbol for the social democrat militancy.[2] The Iron Front was regarded as a “social fascist terror organisation” by the KPD.[3]
