Last modified: 2023-06-03 by 
zachary harden
Keywords: nykp | nyilaskeresztes párt | arrow cross | h | cross: arrow pointed |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
The Arrow Cross was the symbol of the fascist
Arrow Cross Party (Nyilaskeresztes Párt) who
came to power in (then German occupied) Hungary
on October 15 1944 after Admiral Horthy tried to
negotiate with the allies. Acording to
Symbols.com,
the Arrow cross has been used by Magyarian tribes
about the time that they arrived in the region now
called Hungary, around the year 1000 A.D. The most
well known version of the flag was identical to the
hakenkreuzfahne
apart from the symbol in the center of the flag.
Marcus Wendel, 07 Aug 1999 and 09 Aug 1999
The "H" on the Hungarian Nazi (Arrow Cross)
movement’s flag stands neither for "Hungaria"
nor for "Horthy" (Horthy was an enemy of the Arrow
Cross movement). It stands for "hungarizmus"
(hungarism), the name of the ideology of the Arrow
Cross movement.
Ivan Marinov, 10 Feb 2000
According to Forgotten Legions of the Third Reich
[ltj85]
by David Littlejohn, the "H "was added to Arrow Cross
symbol «when the Arrow Cross became the Hungaria Movement
in 1944», thus "H" being for "Hungaria".
Marcus Wendel, 20 Sep 2000
This, disc with a black, "H"-less cross, is the flag of
the Hungarian version of the Nazi party
and was used in the time that Szálasi was in power
(1943?-1945).
Ferenc Valoczy, 27 Sep 1999
This flag, but with a black fimbriation on the
disc is suggested in the
"Nazism
Exposed" website as used by modern
hungarian neonazi / skinheads.
António Martins, 10 Aug 1999
The arrow cross in green, charged with a white capital "H",
on a white disc on a red background, as shown on a photo on the
book A magyarok krónikája (The Hungarians’ Chronicle),
by Glatz Ferenc (Mohndruck GmbH: Gütersloh, 1996: 628).
António Martins, 10 Aug 1999
image by Tomislav Todorović, 30 June 2012
This photo is the
evidence for the flag described below, also shows wall and
table decorations with the white disc, charged with the arrow cross without the
"H" letter. The dimensions of these decorations make them too big for the flags,
but the party emblem in form of the shield, with the same design, appears on the
wall behind Ferenc Szálasi on a photo at the Holocaust in Hungary
website (Image)
The same emblem as the badge, together with the same-designed armband and a
party membership booklet, which also has the emblem printed in it, was offered
for the auction at this
website.
A similar badge, with the addition of an eagle atop the shield, can be seen
here. (Image)
Photo of a party poster from 1941, showing the same flag, can be seen
here.
The center of the cross is hidden behind the flag-bearer's head, so it is not
actually clear if the letter "H" was meant to be there or not. However, the
above sources prove that the design variant without the letter was widely used
and that the letter, if its use was mandatory, would certainly have been shown
there, so it must have been the same in case of this poster.
Tomislav Todorović, 30 June 2012
image by António Martins, 10 Aug 1999
The arrow cross in black, placed on a 90 deg. lozange
on a red background.
António Martins, 10 Aug 1999
Numerous flags with this design are shown on a
photo of the party leadership, including Ferenc Szálasi, the head of the
party and also the head of state 1944-1945 (Image)
The fact that the cross clearly does not appear as black, but dark gray, is the
evidence that its real color was green.
The same photo, in a larger format, was published in Serbian weekly magazine NIN
(ISSN 0027-6685), issue 3160 of 2011-07-21, p. 10, as the illustration of an
article about the controversial verdict in the case of Sándor Képíró, who was
tried for the WW2 war crimes committed in Novi Sad, Serbia, and found not
guilty. This photo (sources: AP and Hungarian National Museum), besides an even
better view of the black and white appearance of the flag colors, also clearly
showed the finials of these flag: an arrow cross within a ring, on which is
resting an eagle affronty, wings displayed and elevated. This was probably the
official finial for the party flags.
Tomislav Todorović, 30 June 2012
The arrow cross in green, charged with a white capital "H",
placed on a 90 deg. lozange, on the red hoist half of a flag
with the fly hoist with nine stripes alternating red and white.
This is shown flying in a hungarian
war propaganda poster
(along with the hungarian tricolor
and the contemporary german flag)
reproduced on the book A magyarok krónikája
(The Hungarians’ Chronicle),
by Glatz Ferenc (Mohndruck GmbH: Gütersloh, 1996: 628).
António Martins, 10 Aug 1999
image by Tomislav Todorović, 30 June 2012
The flag with red and white stripes in the fly seems to have been really
used, as shown here. (Image)
This does look like an old flag, with colors partly faded. The interesting
details are that the cross with the letter "H" is actually rotated for 90
degrees, as if the flag was meant to be hung vertically, and that the fly part
is much larger than the hoist part (the flag is shown as such in the attached
image).
Tomislav Todorović, 30 June 2012
The arrow cross in green, charged with a white capital "H",
placed on a 90 deg. lozange, over all on a stripped background.
This pattern was used as armband, and I have no evidence that
it was used as a flag.
António Martins, 10 Aug 1999
I try to get some information about this: I found nothing! No
picture, no poster, no text. It seems this flag never used.
Molnár István, 08 Mar 2007
