Bastian Schweinsteiger: Not happy with Nazi toy likeness

Footballer or Nazi toy? You decide

Normally when a manufacturer decides to make a likeness of a footballer, it’s a sort of homage. Something he can take pride in no matter how creepy it is to have a doll of yourself lurking about. This is definitely not the case for Manchester United’s Bastian Schweinsteiger.

A Chinese toy company has decided to add a Nazi soldier in its WWII collection. Not only does the ‘toy’ have more than a striking resemblance to Schweinsteiger, the toy company has only gone and called it “Bastian”.
The company has insisted that their Nazi toy Bastian was not intended to look like World Cup winner Bastian. And we all definitely believe a company that thinks Nazi toys are a good idea, right?

Patrick Chan, a company spokesperson has said “We offer no figures based on the football. The resemblance is purely coincidental. The figure is based on a typical German. We believe most Germans look like this. Bastian is a common name in Germany.”

To summarise, the company is not only making Nazi figurines but is also using the defence that ‘they all look alike’.

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