Poor Wal-Mart, it just can't distance itself from the Nazis.
First, the company ran an ad featuring a book burning at Berlin's Opernplatz in 1933, and then it started selling shirts with the skull logo of the Waffen SS, a division of the SS who guarded Hitler. This was discovered back in November, and Wal-Mart officials pleaded ignorance and said they would have the shirts removed from the store. Fast forward a few months, and, as The Consumerist has been reporting, folks are still finding the shirts in Wal-Mart stores. It should be noted, though, that in some stores, despite the fact the shirts are still on the rack, they've been removed from the system and cannot actually be purchased.
My knowledge of history isn't exactly encyclopedic, so I'll admit I had no idea the skull image was connected to the Nazis. I think from now on I'll just stick to buying shirts that have images I understand, maybe something with Foghorn Leghorn. I'm pretty sure he wasn't connected to Hitler.
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1. I'm not surprised that Wal-Mart would be selling Nazi
fashion apparel aren't they the industry equivilent of
the S.S.,the death squad of retail if you will.If you
don't beleive it you've never had them blitzkrieg your
town,goose-stepping they're way down main street
incorporating chambers of commerce,& city officials in
their diabolical plot to rid the world of Mom & Pop
buisiness',baseball,& apple pie!But like all totalitarian regime's they will implode [ala:George
Bush].I beleive we are witnessing the beginning of the
collapse of their 1000 year reich,computerized check
out lanes,reduced selection of inventory,the desperate
slaugther of the lay-away department,& finally the
changing of the blue Wal-Mart vest!All clear signs of
an empire on the verge of collapse!
Posted at 9:15AM on Jan 6th 2007 by J.P.