Arrow Cross pin
This pin is constructed of metal and enamel with a butterfly clasp on the back so the pin can be securely put on a hat, shirt or jacket. This pin is one inch in diameter.
The Hungarian Arrow Cross Party was founded by Ferenc Szálasi in 1935 as the
Party of National Will. It had its origins in the political philosophy of
pro-German extremists such as Gyula Gömbös, who famously coined the term
"national socialism" in the 1920s. The party was outlawed in 1937 but was
reconstituted in 1939 as the Arrow Cross Party, and was said to be modeled
fairly explicitly on the Nazi Party of Germany. The Arrow Cross emblem was an
ancient symbol of the Magyar tribes who settled Hungary, thereby suggesting
the racial purity of the Hungarians in much the same way that the Nazi
swastika celebrated the racial purity of the Aryans.
After WWII thousands of loyal Arrow Cross soldiers were persecuted, jailed
and executed for trying to save their nation from the ravages of Communism.
