October 27, 2004
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By JEREMY HAINSWORTH
A doll depicting members of a Nazi SS combat division is photographed with all the accessories. (CP PHOTO/Richard Lam)
VANCOUVER (CP) - Virgin Megastores said dolls depicting members of the Totenkopf Division are no longer being stocked in its Vancouver store. While members of the division fought in Normandy in 1944, it was originally formed at Dachau, Germany, site of the first concentration camp outside Munich. The Totenkopf continued to guard camps until the end of the Second World War.
Plan-B co-president Chris Borman said the Totenkopf figures were picked because "they've got the coolest gear. It makes for a cool figure."
Borman said his grandfathers had fought in Europe for his "right to make whatever I want."
Other figures in the doll series include several Waffen SS figures .
On May 26, 1940, a company of the Canadian Royal Norfolk Regiment surrendered to the 2nd Totenkopf Infantry Regiment under the command of SS Obersturmfuhrer Fritz Knoechlein.
The Canadians were lined up in the meadow along a barn wall. When the 99 prisoners were in position, two machine guns opened fire, killing 97 of them.
Comments (5)
Now they'll have rarity value, become collectors' items and be much revered.
Whose bright idea was this?? Sometimes these toymakers come out of left field with these toy ideas...
It looks like a toy tie-in for a video game called 'Call of Duty.'
maybe it would be balanced if they had holocaust survivor doll and Aryan dolls...
I'd probably have bought them...Now if only they'd make a Rommel and Auchinleck so we could have them take over Tobruk over and over...or maybe the Eisengruppen vs the red army.
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