German army uniforms have been mistakenly issued with ‘SS’ size labels after a 'production problem'
The German federal Ministry of Defence recently sent around €2.3 billion worth of combat equipment such as helmets, sleeping bags and waterproof jackets to its troops.
The ministry subsequently ordered soldiers to remove the labels from some jackets due to them containing the initials “SS”, thought to be an acronym for the size: “small, short”.
The initials are associated with the SS (Schutzstaffel), the Nazi-era paramilitary organisation that enforced the Third Reich's oppressive racial policies and was one of the key authorities involved in the slaughter of up to 6 million Jews and other minorities in the Holocaust.
