Andrew Sage
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was as the insignia for a unit called the Death's Head Hussars, which was an elite German cavalry unit.
I mean, I'm sure, I think they did still exist in World War I, but that was well past their prime.
And it was then adopted by the SS.
And it was worn by a number, by a lot of guys in the SS, but it was specifically the insignia of a unit called the Totenkopf SS, which existed to guard concentration camps and death camps.
So having one tattooed on you, bad.
Platner has said, basically, it was a dumb tattoo I got when I was young and just joined in the Marine Corps, and I didn't know what it meant.
And I am willing to believe that, like, a 19-year-old who joins the Marines would make a bad tattoo decision.
Because I have a lot of friends that were in the Marines, and they all have bad tattoos.
None of them have death heads.
Also, he got it while in Croatia, while drunk with other Marines.
On shore leave, yeah.
And he was hammered.
And yeah, the probability of walking into a tattoo shop in Croatia and coming out with a Nazi tattoo is extremely high.