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Dubious sources with no photos. For example, the symbol of the 4th Panzer Division appears in a photo at [1] as a crow's foot in a circle, not touching the circumference, and with crossed swords beneath, but the drawing at [2] (which is not itself sourced) has been changed to omit the swords and to make the crow's foot touch the circumference so that it looks like an inverted peace symbol. There is clearly some doctoring going on. The same may be true of the symbol for the 3rd Panzer Division, for which no source is given either. I've removed it. Marshall46 (talk) 14:50, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Removed again. The earliest source for the drawing of the peace sign as a Wehrmacht symbol is Theodor Hartmann's Wehrmacht Divisional Signs (London: Almark Publishing Co., 1970). Hartmann gives no source. No photograph of this symbol in use has ever been produced. Hartmann is unknown apart from this book. For all these reasons he is an unreliable source. There is, however, a photo showing the vehicle marking on the right, posted on Axis History Forum. The poster says it belonged to the 3rd Panzer Division; another poster says it was the 4th Panzer Division. It is easy to see how in 1970 it might have reminded Hartmann of the peace sign and how he might have altered it for his book. Marshall46 (talk) 12:43, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I found a reference to the use of a "death rune" (inverted Algiz, no circle mentioned) for (a batallion of?) the 10th Panzer Division in
this 1982 publication. I only see snippet view, and
there is mention of a "10. Panzerdivision im XLVI. Armeekorps unter Panzergeneral Guderian", which itself sounds a bit fishy (should probably read XVI, not XLVI?).
Wir sind der 10. Panzerdivision im XLVI. Armeekorps unter Panzergeneral Guderian zugeteilt. Unser taktisches Zeichen ist neben der Todesrune der Abteilung ein grosses 'G'.
Walter Henkels, Die Lage war immer so ernst: ein Chronist erinnert sich (1982), p. 256.
