Noun: Hakenkreuz 'haa-kun,kroyts
- The official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction
"The discovery of Hakenkreuzes painted on the synagogue shocked the community";
- swastika
Derived forms: Hakenkreuzes
Type of: allegory, emblem, tetraskele, tetraskelion
Encyclopedia: Hakenkreuz