Symbol 28:35

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The crutch cross is sometimes interpreted
as the joining together of four tau crosses (see
in Group 22). This ideogram has been
used, for example, by the anti-Nazi party led by Dollfuss in
Austria during the 1930s. It was also very common
in Portugal, at least before the
revolution against the old fascist regime in the 1970s.
This fascist symbol was
taken up by the murderous ultrasocialists in
Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge. They used it on their
banners during the Communist revolution in Cambodia and at the siege
and fall of its capital, Phnom Penh, in 1975.
Compare with
in Group 22, a battle
sign frequently used by the crusader knights and by the
knights of the Teutonic order occupying the northern part of
what is now Poland and the land on the east coast of the Baltic.



