Germany’s Euro ‘SS’ football shirt was an own goal Adidas should have seen coming. ... and wearing the style of brown shorts and leather trench coats favoured by Hitler’s thugs.

Former German SS Generals Paul Hausser (left) and Kurt Meyer ("Panzer Meyer") chat during a two-day reunion of SS members in Karlsburg, Germany in July 1957.

Under their shirts, many had their blood types tattooed onto their left upper arms. They were veterans of the Waffen-SS, who had gathered at the ferry house, a popular Hamburg destination.