Totenkopf

It’s reached the point where I was recently arguing with somebody online about the use of the term Totenkopf as a nickname when the word is so closely tied to the SS units specifically responsible for managing Hitler’s death camps.

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SS Division "Totenkopf" is moving forward to crush the Soviet tank forces.

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Her father was not “Dr. Haas,” he was not in the Waffen-SS, not any Totenkopf.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

Generally the Waffen-SS was not directly involved in the Holocaust, as the separately organised Allgemeine SS was responsible for the death camps, although many members of it and the SS-Totenkopfverbände subsequently became members of the Waffen-SS, forming the initial core of the Totenkopf Division.

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Pfotenhauer ... isn't that the villain making all those flying robots ...? oh wait, that was Totenkopf.

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This was especially true of those who were entering the Totenkopf, the "deaths head," tasked with being guards at the camps.

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The various power game subcultures often associate with the Nazis as they were pretty bloody powerful and the uniforms are hot walk round any alternative night ands you will probably run out of fingers counting people walking round both wearing items with a distinct Totenkopf theme and carrying whips.

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The various power game subcultures often associate with the Nazis as they were pretty bloody powerful and the uniforms are hot walk round any alternative night ands you will probably run out of fingers counting people walking round both wearing items with a distinct Totenkopf theme and carrying whips.

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The Consumerist actually had an ongoing feud over some shirts screen printed with the 3rd SS Division Nazi Totenkopf emblem.

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Consumerist reports that 22 weeks after Wal-Mart agreed to stop selling T-shirts bearing the insignia of the SS-Totenkopf, they are still on the shelves.

Hidden Symbols: Wal-Mart (Still) Selling T-Shirts With Nazi Insignia Jeremiah McNichols 2007