{"id":47392,"date":"2014-09-15T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=47392"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:30:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:30:35","slug":"german-tv-shows-nazi-symbols-on-helmets-of-ukraine-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/09\/german-tv-shows-nazi-symbols-on-helmets-of-ukraine-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"German TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets, including the swastika and the SS runes of Hitler’s infamous black-uniformed elite corps. ZDF<\/p><\/div>\n

Germans were confronted with images of their country\u2019s dark past on Monday [8 Sep 2014] night, when German public broadcaster ZDF showed video of Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets in its evening newscast. In a report on the fragile cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, Moscow correspondent Bernhard Lichte used pictures of a soldier wearing a combat helmet with the “SS runes” of Hitler\u2019s infamous black-uniformed elite corps. A second soldier was seen with a swastika on his gear. \u201cVolunteer battalions from nearly every political spectrum are reinforcing the government side,\u201d the ZDF correspondent said in his report.<\/p>\n

The video was shot last week in Ukraine by a camera team from Norwegian broadcaster TV2. \u201cWe were filming a report about Ukraine\u2019s AZOV battalion in the eastern city of Urzuf, when we came across these soldiers,\u201d Oysten Bogen, a correspondent for the private television station, told NBC News. Minutes before the images were taped, Bogen said he had asked a spokesperson whether the battalion had fascist tendencies. \u201cThe reply was: absolutely not, we are just Ukrainian nationalists,\u201d Bogen said.<\/p>\n

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