A sports jersey is one way for fans to show national pride — but German soccer fans have been banned from customizing theirs with the number 44 because of a resemblance to the lightning bolts ...

Shirts with the number 44 were at the centre of the controversy, with that number said to look like the infamous SS “lightning bolts” symbol. Deliveries of shirts already ordered with the ...

He said: "My concern, and I need to voice this, is that when you’ve got an artist that thinks it’s ok to use the Nazi SS symbol to signify lightning bolts, and has to be told that’s not ...