On Tuesday afternoon, the Donald Trump 2016 campaign tweeted an image that contained a stock art photo of World War II Nazi Waffen soldiers on the march along with the hashtag #MakeAmericaGreatAgain.

Mother Jones reported that within minutes, sharp eyes had identified the soldiers.

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#MEGAFAIL ===> Yes, those aren't just WW2 Germans, they're Waffen-SS in the Trump campaign pic https://t.co/BSFNuNrK6R — John Schindler (@20committee) July 14, 2015

The campaign yanked the tweet down, but not before dozens of screen grabs had been taken.

At length, the source of the stock images was identified.

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In the end, the campaign responded by blaming an intern, saying, “Mr. Trump has been in Charlottesville, Virginia all day at the opening of a development. A young intern created and posted the image and did not see the very faded figures within the flag of the stock photo. The intern apologized and immediately deleted the tweet.”

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Understandable enough, but as commentator Simon Maloy said:

Trump interns are apparently making campaign publicity materials. On their own initiative. With no approval process. Tight ship over there. — Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) July 14, 2015

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Here is a screen capture of the original tweet:

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UPDATE: Mother Jones has more on the origin of that photo: