
Strasserism, a strand of Nazism with a Third Positionist ideology, used a crossed hammer and sword as its emblem. The Ahnenerbe research unit of the SS also used Wilhelm Teudt's neo-heathen Irminsul symbol. Units of the Wehrmacht used insignia including the Wolfsangel The death's head appears on the SS-Ehrenring presented by Heinrich Himmler to favored members of the SS, and was used as an insignia by the Death's Head Units of the SS that administered the concentration camps. Skull ring awarded to SS members - replica Other Armanen runes used by the Nazis and subsequently by neo-Nazis include forms derived from Eihwaz, Tiwaz, Algiz and Othala. Letters of the Armanen runes invented by Guido von List were used by the SS, particularly the Doppel Siegrune, based on the historical sowilo rune reinterpreted by List to signify 'victory' instead of the sun. Some, however, did, including Coburg, which replaced the Moor's head representing Saint Maurice on their arms with a sword and swastika, and Thuringia, which added a swastika to the paws of their lion. Few German councils actually changed their often ancient symbols. Under the Nazi regime, government bodies were encouraged to remove religious symbolism from their heraldry. The original coat of arms was restored in 1945.

In 1934, it was replaced by a coat of arms featuring a sword with a swastika on the pommel (right). The ancient arms of Coburg (left) featured the head of Saint Maurice, a symbol looked down upon by the Nazi party. "This has long been the case for films and with regards to the freedom of the arts, this is now rightly also the case with computer and videogames." Heraldry "Through the change in the interpretation of the law, games that critically look at current affairs can for the first time be given a USK age rating", USK managing director Elisabeth Secker told CTV. On August 9, 2018, Germany lifted the ban on the usage of swastikas and other Nazi symbols in video games.

Today, certain countries such as Germany (see Strafgesetzbuch section 86a), Austria, France, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, China and Israel have banned Nazi symbols and it is considered a criminal offence if they are displayed publicly for non-educational purposes. The Nazis denounced the black- red- gold flag of the Weimar Republic (the current flag of Germany). This colour scheme was commonly associated with anti- Weimar German nationalists, following the fall of the German Empire. The black-white-red motif is based on the colours of the flags of the German Empire.

The formal symbol of the party was the Parteiadler, an eagle atop a swastika.

The Nazis' principal symbol was the swastika, which the newly established Nazi Party formally adopted in 1920.
