Marine Nazi SS photo: Gen. James Amos, Marine commandant, apologizes for …

Just weeks after news broke that one elite unit of the forward-deployed Marines urinated on the corpses of dead Afghans, a photo has surfaced of another unit posing proudly beside a flag of the Nazi's killer SS troops.

Villa Hall Auctions, a small auctioneer in Cornwall, southwest England, said the wooden box of equipment was engraved with the name of Anton Burger, an SS commander of the Terezin ghetto – a labor camp north of Prague in then-Czechoslovakia.

A US Marine sniper team posed with a flag emblazoned with the symbol of the Nazi SS while on duty in Afghanistan, the Pentagon has admitted. A photograph leaked onto the internet showed the heavily-armed troops

Marine Corps scout snipers used the logo of the notorious Nazi SS organization while in Afghanistan in 2010, the service acknowledged Thursday.

The Waffen-SS was a multi-ethnic and multi-national military force of the Third Reich. It constituted the armed wing of the Nazi Party's Schutzstaffel (“Protective Squadron”). Initially membership was open to “Aryans” only in