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Cake day: April 21st, 2026

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  • Apparently the accusations of him being Nazi stem from a tattoo he got while on shore leave. Seems like pretty slim evidence. From the article:

    Instead, the accusation is entirely based on a skull and crossbones tattoo that Platner got when he was a young Marine on shore leave in Croatia. He and a friend picked the design off the wall of the tattoo parlor. Unfortunately, he chose a Totenkopf, the skull and crossbones configuration used by the Nazi SS. If you do a Google search for “how to tell Totenkopf from other skull and crossbones designs,” you’ll learn that it has a “more articulated lower jaw” and more “defined” teeth than skulls used in other designs. I’m willing to take it on faith that there are people who can tell at a glance which jawline is which, but I am not one of them — and neither, unfortunately, was Platner.