November 10, 2006, - 10:48 am
Screw-Up: Wal-Mart Sells Nazi Death’s Head Ts
By Debbie Schlussel
Well, they’ve decided to bring Christmas back to Wal-Mart, but never did anything about their penchant for employing illegal aliens (here and here).
And now, Wal-Mart screwed up on something else. Rick at Bent Corner discovered that Wal-Mart is selling t-shirts that bear a skull and bones exactly like the Nazi SS division, Death’s Head Battalion (“Totenkopf”), which included such evil men as Johann Leprich. It’s now frequently worn by Neo-Nazis.
I’m sure the purchasers at Wal-Mart had no idea and wouldn’t deliberately sell Nazi emblem-laden clothing, but this screw-up needs to be corrected. Wal-Mart needs to immediately pull and destroy the shirts. And its personnel must investigate which of its vendors sympathizes with the Nazis and decided to pull a fast one on the retail giant. Check out the pictures of the Wal-Mart T and the Nazi Death’s Head:
Thanks to reader Chris D. who pointed this out and is rightly disturbed by this.
Let’s see if Wal-Mart responds appropriately and how quickly. We note that Islamists worldwide got mad at Burger King and Nike, merely because a swirl on Ice cream and running shoe emblems, respectively, slightly resembled the Arabic cursive for “Allah.” That was absurd.
But this is a legit concern.
Tags: Battalion, Battalion Emblem, Burger King, Christmas, Death's Head Battalion, head, Johann Leprich, Nike, retail giant, Ts By Debbie Schlussel Well, Wal-Mart
Thanks Debbie for taking the time to look over my email, even though we’ve not always seen eye to eye. The instant I saw this I knew it was something you’d be interested in. Granted there’s free speech, but for wal-mart, who censors graphic movies and audio cd’s, they’ve already forgone that right. Hopefully the traction that your blog pulls, plus this stories exposure on digg.com will result in the retailer removing this shirt from the shelves.
FSM-FTW!(descent) on November 10, 2006 at 11:42 am