• Grilipper54@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    The picture presented is not a Totenkopf though.

    What is the name of the flag? Or a source of it? I don’t recognize it.

    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      It’s the Marine Raiders expeditionary flag, a military unit in WW2.

      Skull and crossbones imagery has been used by militaries since the dawn of time. And if you look on the wikipedia article for Totenkopf, you’ll find it is indistinguishable from other skull and crossbones imagery. Totenkomf is just the German word for skull and crossbones. Wikipedia explicitly labels the following image a Totenkopf:

      Honestly, you’re doing the equivalent of right wingers who hyperventilated about the fact that Obama attended a “Madrassa” for awhile as a child. The mouth breathers were too stupid to realize that madrassa is just the Arabic word for school.

      There is no difference between a deaths head and a “totenkopf.” It literally means “dead person’s head” in German.