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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.
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