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I was buying a jacket at Macy's the other day and was surprised to come across a hoodie with the totenkopf logo of the 3rd SS Panzer Division, the branch of the infamous SS secret police charged with running the concentration camps in Nazi Germany. It's probably one of the most offensive Nazi logos, after the SS 'lightning-bolt' symbol and the swastika itself:
I was not surprised specifically that the logo made it onto some clothing. It's not a very well-known logo, and the clothing designer probably just searched the internet for 'skull' and copied one of the results without knowing what it was. For some reason the skull motif seems to be very popular in young men's clothing these days (who wouldn't want to 'rebel' against the System by buying some overpriced designer clothing with a skull logo that's vaguely reminiscent of the latest Disney blockbuster movie franchise?).
I was actually mostly surprised that Macy's would let this slip through the quality-control process, risking a massive P.R. backlash and humiliation, similar to what happened to Wal-Mart when it got caught selling t-shirts with the same logo. You'd think big companies would have systems in place to stop that kind of stuff, but I guess not.
Unfortunately I'm not sufficiently outraged at this point to go on a crusade against Macy's like The Consumerist did with their "Wal-Mart Nazi T-Shirt Watch" campaign (culminating with even Congress getting in on the 'outrage'). I just find it more interesting than anything, from a sociological sort of view.
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November 7th, 2007 - 15:06
I dunno, it looks sufficiently different to me. The distinctive black shield is gone, there is no detail to the teeth, the chin is different, there are no skull cracks, the eyes are not round, and it is facing the other direction. A Swastika with the arms pointing in the opposite directions is not a Swastika, despite the similarity. I would say this falls into the generic category of “skull and cross-bones”.
November 7th, 2007 - 15:22
Yeah it doesn’t look exactly like the logo on Wikipedia. I could see the argument that it’s not the same thing. But the Wal Mart t-shirt one looked pretty different too.
November 8th, 2007 - 00:02
I can see a very slight similarity, but enough difference. I think the whole skull thing is also playing off the big pirates of the caribbean deal too.
Walmarts skull looks a bunch more similar. with the wiki pic at least.
May 19th, 2008 - 04:39
I am a militaria collector,my grandfather was an italian waffen-ss Untersturmführer,and i can say that this skull is anything more distant from a 3rd Ss division totenkopf…maybe it is similar,but all stylized skulls are similar…