The Waffen SS was the fighting arm of the notorious SS
(Schutzstaffel), founded in 1925 as the personal bodyguard for Adolf
Hitler and other Nazi leaders.
Waffen SS divisions have been implicated in murder sprees in
German-occupied countries on the eastern and western fronts in World
War II.
Some guarded concentration camps.
From The Associated Press, 11/14/06:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15702868/?from=ET
Wal-Mart pulls T-shirts with Nazi skull logo
Retailer apologizes, said it wasn’t aware that image had SS origins
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is pulling a skull-and-crossbones T-shirt from
its shelves after a Maryland blogger complained that the image was
identical to a Nazi SS emblem from World War II.
Rick Rottman, who runs an online journal called Bent Corner, posted a
picture of the shirt late last week next to an image of a divisional
insignia he said was used by the 3rd SS Division, a unit of Adolf
Hitler’s Waffen SS.
The design is a distinctive image of a squat-looking human skull
slightly angled to the side.
Wal-Mart said Monday it was not aware of the origins of the image
until Rottman’s post and is working quickly to get the T-shirt out of
stores, spokesman David Tovar said.
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