SS = Scout Snipers: US Marines adopt Nazi goons emblem

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Published time: February 10, 2012 08:31
Edited time: February 10, 2012 12:31

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A picture showing a US Marine scout sniper team posing in front of what appears as a flag of the notorious Nazi organization SS, has surfaced online. The Marine Corps confirmed that the embarrassing photo taken in Afghanistan is real.

The use of the SS symbol in not acceptable and the Corps has addressed the issue, Lt. Col. Stewart Upton said in a statement Thursday.

He did not elaborate on what measures have been taken, but stressed that the Marines shown in the picture are no longer with the unit.

The picture circulating on the internet was taken in September 2010 in Afghanistan’s Sangin province.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) in Washington said it was outraged by the photograph.

“Heads need to roll and this needs to be fully investigated,” said Mikey Weinstein, founder of MRFF.

The Marines posing in the photo wanted to identify themselves as scout snipers, not Nazis, reports the British newspaper Daily Mail, citing a spokesman of the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

The SS, or Schutzstaffel, was the military wing of the German Nazi Party. They played an essential part in many crimes against humanity, including the genocide of Jews in territories controlled by the Third Reich.

The twin Sig rune, resembling two lightning bolts, was used as the insignia of the criminal organization.

The scandal comes less than a month after the US Marines were marred by another scandal. Several of its scout snipers were filmed while urinating on dead bodies of Taliban militants. The tape surfaced on the internet, causing public uproar and official condemnation of the desecration.

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john (unregistered) 27.05.2012 17:35

muslims in world war 2 were part of the ss .mufty was the name of the top man they carried out murders of serbians in yugoslavian concentration camps .another reson behind the serbian epnic cleansing in serbia against muslims in july 1995 .these us marines are ignorant to what this ss sign his for .its a bit rich when us world war 2 soldiers executed lots of ss gaurds at concentration camps liberated by us army at end of 1945 dachau was one main one .they well may as well pose with a photo of osama bin laden ..usa his doing the same things as natsi germany did there economy as gone pare shaped.and there putting everything in to war and weapons .but least the us citizens are protesting about it in natsi germany public were to frightend or sent to a concentration camp if they objected .but us and canadian police are using brute force and zero tolerance like natsis did in world war 2 i am anti war and think money should be put in to medicines not weapons

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Peter 22.02.2012 23:27

The Nazi SS were many things. Sadly goons wasn't one of them!

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