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The symbol in question:
I mean......I can kinda get why he didn't know. That looks like one of those blobs therapists use to figure out what you see.
I don't even see a skull and bones. I see a fish, with a railroad crossing sign on it's belly.
Even side by side, I barely see the resemblance. I guess that's what it's supposed to be, but I could easily be convinced if you show me a fish with a railroad sign on it's belly.
I can fully understand how he didn't know. I don't understand why he got a tattoo he had no strong attatchments to however. He should have at least known WHAT he was getting tattood in the first place.
In any event, nazi affiliation, no nazi affiliation, can we all agree that it's a shit tattoo either way?
I too think the picture is uselessly bad, and that's key to another part of the story in the comments. Basically an unnamed associate seemed to be in the same boat of not knowing what it was and the man himself described it by name.
Now he didn't explicitly say it was a Nazi symbol, but he allegedly used the specific German word for it instead of saying it's some skull and crossbones.
Per the Jewish Insider citing a anonymous source, so take that for what you will
I suppose what helps for me is that the tatoo is kind of hard to make out, and he doesn't deny the design intent matches what that is purported to be. I don't know if anyone would have accurately made that connection without help.