There are actually a whopping 44 symbols you need to be able to decode - so how many of them do you know? Arguably the most important symbols to keep an eye on are the washing symbols - almost all ...

Historian Michael König appears to have been one of the first people to notice the resemblance between the “44” and the symbol for the “Schutzstaffel,” also known as the SS, which was ...

Adidas has barred German fans from customizing soccer jerseys with the number 44 after concerns that the figures resembled the World War II-era Nazi SS symbol. The German Football Association’s ...

Münch said the number 44 on the jersey could be read as the “rune signs for the letters ‘SS,’” used in the 19th and 20th centuries. Unlike in the U.S., the symbols are banned in Germany.

The personalised kit sparked outrage amid claims the 44 looked like the infamous SS 'lightning bolts' symbol, with historian Michael Konig describing its design as 'very questionable'.

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