Even a WWII buff did NOT recognize it as a Totenkopf

[mainer]

Tesha first posted this link and it needs wider distribution.
This is why I don't believe those who claim they instantly recognized that tattoo as a Totenkopf.

I have made three films about the holocaust, looked at more than 5,000 still photographs of the Holocaust in the German national archive in Koblinz, spent two weeks in the photo archive at Yad Vashem in Israel looking at thousands of photographs, did a 90 minute PBS special about the French resistance against the Nazis, and I have an entire book about German military uniforms and I did not recognize his tattoo as an SS Totenkopf insignia when I first saw it. The actual Totenkopf insignias are small and silver, and when I saw the large black version on Platner’s chest I did not recognize it. I wish I had a dollar for every tattoo I ever saw that was a bad choice.

https://www.facebook.com/rob.gardner.399

[mainer]

1. About Rob Gardner

https://www.ourherald.com/articles/documentary-film-director-had-a-good-feeling-about-vt/

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. A person can just say they support Platner without having to prove how unobservant they are.

[-misanthroptimist]

3. Yeah, the whole thing is a cheap smear

And it didn't even work. I expect by November they'll trot out a parrot who says Platner wouldn't give him a cracker.

[obamanut2012]

4. How embarrassing for him

[sarisataka]

9. At least the filmmaker is not denying what it is.

Just that he did not immediately recognize it outside of the context of a uniform.

Surprisingly, given his history of Holocaust documentaries but ir seems he did eventually see it.

[sarisataka]

5. Perhaps he is not the WW2 buff you believe he is.

I have noticed a trend of people who cannot believe others may have knowledge they are unaware of; why is it so difficult to accept? None of us are omniscient.

[BH liberal]

6. World War II buff...

my ass! If he missed that symbol, he wasn't looking.

[Happy Hoosier]

7. It was OBVIOUSLY a totenkopf, but...

I don't necessarily expect Platner to have known that, and young men sometimes do stupid shit.

I'm not happy he got it, but I am willing to overlook it since he got it covered up.

[RandySF]

8. You found one.