Tattoo fixers on removing Nazi symbols: ‘You don’t know if they’re changing or hiding’

<p>Senate hopeful Graham Platner covered up his tattoo once he learned of its Nazi associations. It’s a problem so common there are free programs for it</p><p>Last week, Graham Platner, a progressive Democrat running for the US Senate in Maine, responded to a burst of online criticism by doing something few candidates for high office are ever required to do: he posted a topless photo of himself on the internet.</p><p>It was an unusual moment in a campaign that had so far gone his way. Platner had won praise from progressives and secured the backing of Bernie Sanders. But his campaign came unstuck when a video surfaced of him dancing in his underwear at his brother’s wedding – and revealing a skull-and-crossbones tattoo on his chest. The design, known as the <em>Totenkopf</em>, is widely recognised as a Nazi symbol.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/oct/28/nazi-tattoo-removal-cover-up">Continue reading...</a>