Three Arrows

The Three Arrows (German: Drei Pfeile) is a social democratic political symbol associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), used in the late history of the Weimar Republic. First conceived for the SPD-dominated Iron Front as a symbol of the social democratic resistance against Nazism in 1932, it became an official symbol of the Party during the November 1932 German federal election, representing their opposition towards monarchism, Nazism, and communism.^[1]

Since its inception, the symbol has been used in many different contexts by a variety of anti-fascist, social democratic and socialist organisations.

^ Potthoff, Heinrich; Faulenbach, Bernd (1998). Sozialdemokraten und Kommunisten nach Nationalsozialismus und Krieg: zur historischen Einordnung der Zwangsvereinigung [Social democrats and communists after National Socialism and war: on the historical classification of the forced union] (in German). Klartext. p. 27. ISBN 3884746561. Drei Pfeile waren das "Eisernen Front", die sich von der "Harzburger Front" und den Nationalsozialisten, von den Monarchisten und von den Kommunisten absetzen volte. [The Three Arrows were the symbol of the "Iron Front", which wanted to distance itself from the "Harzburg Front" and the National Socialists, from the monarchists and from the totalitarian communists.]