OMC! You weren’t kidding! I just looked at a close-up image of a Gestapo hat, & there it was—an actual skull & crossbones. I can’t believe it. I guess they just really, really wanted to instill fear in people, & underscore the fact that the Gestapo was all about death. Creepy.
I also saw a pic of a skull w only an upper jawbone, wearing a military helmet. Makes me wonder if Nazism wasn’t actually a death cult at heart. Hmm. More reading required.
Concentration camp guards and butchers of women and children, cloaked in the mantel of the German military. They were so hated, we wouldn't keep them as POWs, but instead turned them over to the Russians.