Observers on social media pointed out similarities between the number 44 and the SS rune of the Nazi Schutzstaffel paramilitary organization.
BERLIN — The German Football Association announced Monday that it will redesign the font used on its soccer jerseys after comparisons were drawn to a Nazi symbol, outlawed in Germany.
None of the parties involved in checking the numbers “saw any proximity to Nazi symbolism in the creation process of the jersey design,” the DFB said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.
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