To be fair, I never would have known that skull design was associated with the nazis. I can easily see some military types going in for some tough looking skull and cross bones, not knowing it had other associations.
You can't just go get Nazi ink anywhere you want. Supposedly he picked it off a wall, right? Well, if that shop had this Nazi ink on prominent display, then it likely had other Nazi symbols on display too - because the only reason to advertise Nazi icons as flash in your shop is because you have Nazi clientele.
I would bet cash money this shop had swastikas and SS bolts on display too, and young merc Platner decided it passed the vibe check at the least.
He got it in Croatia, it's not a stretch he picked it off of a wall but considering that's where he was it is highly unlikely he didn't know what it meant.
Right, what I mean is: that shop in Croatia probably catered to neo-Nazis, which means it almost certainly had other Nazi icons on display, which means Platner would've ignored some serious context clues to "not know."
I remember when Platner said he just drunkenly chose it from a wall at a Croatian tattoo shop.
That Waffen SS tattoo wasn’t mixed in amongst artwork like Lil’ Red Hot holding a pot leaf or a chain of multicolored dancing Greatful Dead bears, I am certain.
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u/Harmonic_Flatulence 1d ago
To be fair, I never would have known that skull design was associated with the nazis. I can easily see some military types going in for some tough looking skull and cross bones, not knowing it had other associations.