Great Britain – The high-end fashion retailer Topman has pulled a Horace hooded-jacket from its clothing racks after an online shopper correctly identified a prominent Nazi insignia included among the jacket’s adornments.
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MIRROR.co.uk (http://bit.ly/1kLZyCx) reports that the jacket was part of a “grunge look” line by Horace, which sold for £205 and featured the names of punk bands like the US band Nuclear Assault.
An astute shopper from Hove, East Sussex, identified one of the features as a swastika-type rune worn by Nazis of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division in Croatia and posted a review of the jacket on the Topman website.
A Topman spokesman said, “The jacket was not designed by Topman. We apologise for any offence caused.”
I was at a Sunday market in London a few years ago and saw a whole stall of used SS uniforms and stuff on sale.
It is a good reminder of what is going on.
It is not a Nazi symbol. The symbol is actually a letter (or rune) in the Norse language called “Odal” and was one way that was used to refer to one of their deities, in this case Odin. The fact that the Nazi’s took it does not mean it is one of their symbols, no more than the fact that they used letters of Latin origin means they are Nazi letters as well.