Adidas bans fans from adding ‘44’ to German team football shirt
Kit’s resemblance to infamous SS rune of Nazi paramilitary wing unintentional, company says
Adidas has banned football fans from customising the German national shirt with the number 44 due to its alleged resemblance to the symbol used by Nazi SS units during the second world war.
The Schutzstaffel (SS), a paramilitary organisation of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, was tasked with carrying out the industrialised genocide of Jewish people across Europe.
