[17th Miss Regt]

Oh, horsecrap!

[Sirius Lee]

...electricity pylons...

Hmmm, maybe Sarah was onto something. She's a jeanyus after all.

[NohSpinZone]

Beer hall fake news!

[dfwgator]

Nazis made up a lot of crap.

[SkyPilot]

The SS runes are based on ancient runes.

That fact that a local artist was paid 2.5 Reichmarks to make up the SS sympbol based on them (Ger and Eif) is not new news, but has been known for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_insignia_of_the_Schutzstaffel

[Lord Castlereagh]

Ping

[Oratam]

I always assumed they were (highly) stylized “S-es” meant to suggest lightning bolts.

[aspasia]

[tumblindice]

A troubled tadpole, Pepe was rejected by the Vienna art institute then led astray by water snakes.

[archy]

Walter Heck designed the SS symbol in 1929 and pis believed to have copied it from the signs on electricity pylons in the country at the time.

It still is. Indeed, at some spots on the East German [DDR] border, you could see it from our side, hangiing from the razor wire stoppeldratt electrifified border fence:Hochspannungsleitung! Lebensgefahr! Approximately, High Voltage! Danger to life!

The signs did not face the Eastern where border crossers would be coming from. They were meant for workers and guards working on the mine fields between the fences.