Posted 4 years ago
Troynvic
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Any idea what the symbol is on this
Button? This came to me in a lot of WW2 items acquired by my grandfather during the war.
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Posted 4 years ago
Troynvic
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Any idea what the symbol is on this
Button? This came to me in a lot of WW2 items acquired by my grandfather during the war.
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That’s an Italian National Fascist Party symbol, a fasces and an axe.
Yeah - but it's all over American government too!
"The fasces frequently occurs as a charge in heraldry: it is present on the reverse of the U.S. Mercury dime coin and behind the podium in the United States House of Representatives; and it was the origin of the name of the National Fascist Party in Italy (from which the term fascism is derived)."
https://www.city-journal.org/html/when-fasces-aren%E2%80%99t-fascist-13651.html