This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website

Nyilaskeresztes Párt (Hungary, 1940-1945)

NYKP, Arrow Cross Party

Last modified: 2008-02-28 by antónio martins
Keywords: nykp | nyilaskeresztes párt | arrow cross | h | cross: arrow pointed |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors



Nyilaskeresztes Párt
image by António Martins, 10 Aug 1999
See also:

The Arrow Cross

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


Green cross with "H" on disc

Nyilaskeresztes Párt
image by 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


Black cross on diamond

Nyilaskeresztes Párt
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


Propaganda poster flag

Nyilaskeresztes Párt
image by António Martins, 10 Aug 1999

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


Armband flag-like pattern

Nyilaskeresztes Párt
image by António Martins, 10 Aug 1999

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


Anything below this line was not added by the editor of this page.