Q1956 also discusses the symbols worn by previous shooters.. ANTIFA and hammer and sickle. The NZ shooter had these on his backpack..
There is, of course, the sun wheel, or black sun, symbols seen in photos Tarrant allegedly posted to the Internet before the shooting. The symbol became associated with the Third Reich after Heinrich Himmler decorated a castle with it. But in his 2002 book “Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity,” historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke links the symbol to decorative Merovingian discs in the early medieval period. “As far as we know, it was just an artistic design,” Sturtevant says. “It had nothing to do with a pan-Germanic identity any more than a paisley pattern or a Nike swoosh.”