Without the circle, this symbol was used by Nazi Germany, especially the SS, to mark death in obituaries and on tombstones, replacing the cross of Jesus.



Seen at a Nazi ceremony for the dead in 1942. Looks like the "peace" symbol, doesn't it, minus the circle? But it is literally the symbol of "death", which explains why the Nazis would use it at a ceremony for the dead.



Source: NS årbok 1942, an organizational yearbook of Nasjonal Samling (NS), Quisling's Fascist party in Norway 1933 – 1945. "Commemoration Day of Fallen {dead} Soldiers" in Oslo on March 15th 1942 ~ Norwegian volunteers in the German Waffen-SS killed during Nazi Germany's occupation of Norway in the Second World War. wikimedia.org



It's called the death rune, or in German: Todesrune.

TOD = death ~ Todesrune = death rune



Source: Das Kleine Blatt ~ May 28 1942 ~ Vienna, Austria

Translation:

"Do you already know... that the ancient Germanic runes are probably much older than the alphabets of southern peoples? The runes, which as pictorial symbols with symbolic meaning have existed for many centuries" ... Todesrune: "the death rune, which depicts the person with lowered arms, as a return to Mother Earth."

That symbol is not for peace, but for death, matching the visual of how the Romans crucified Peter upside-down during the time of Nero.



Jesus told Peter beforehand how he would die.

John 21:18-19 KJV |Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.

The only real peace is found at the cross of Jesus, where he died in our place.