A Look at Racist Skinhead Symbols and Tattoos

Insignias and tattos of the racist skinhead underground

Editor’s note: Although white supremacists and other extremists commonly use the Celtic cross and the runic alphabet, these symbols are also frequently used by non-racists. Many non-racist neo-Pagans, for instance, have runic tattoos but have no relation to racist groups or beliefs.

Skin skull tattoo

Totenkopf tattoo “My Honor is Loyalty”

88 boots tattoo

American Front

Volksfront

Keystone State Skins

Blood and Honour, Klan, Odinist iconography

Nazi skin iconography tattoo

Norse runes tattoo

Totenkopf (death’s head) patch with 14/88

Ohio State Skinheads/ Vinlanders

White power fist with laurels

SS lightning bolts tattoo

Vinlanders probate patch

Fenris Wolf Pagan/Odinist symbol tattoo

Skrewdriver life rune patch

Skinbyrd spinning swastika tattoo with 14/88

Independent skin tattoo

Triskelion “three sevens” tattoo

Council of 28/Blood and Honour Council

Skinhead merchandise distributor

Celtic Cross tattoo

Hate rock label patch

United Kingdom skinhead patch

American Thule Society

Skinbyrd patch

Crucified skin tattoo “One people, One Empire, One Leader”

Northwest Hammerskins

Northern Hammerskins

Midland Hammerskins

Western Hammerskins

Hammerskin prospect patch

Hammerskin Nation

Eastern Hammerskins

Confederate Hammerskins

“Hammerskin Forever, Forever Hammerskin”

Hate rock band patch with Thor’s Hammer

Thor’s Hammer tattoo

Hammerskin Celtic Cross tattoo