Nazis make surprise appearance in Donald Trump campaign ad

Seeing Nazi imageryon the Internetisalways a bad sign doubly so when it's part of a campaign photoinsupport of apresidential candidate.

On the morning of July 14,a photo including the American flag, the hashtag#MakeAmericaGreatAgain, and four men wearing Nazi uniforms was posted toDonald Trump's Twitter account andFacebookpage.

They may behard to spotat first glance, but the soldiers marching towards Trump's face in the photoare in fact wearing the uniform of the Waffen-SS, part of the armed wing of the Nazi party.

Michael Niemberg was the first to spot the men in the image,followed by blogger John Schindler.

Schindler tweeted that he's "100% certain" these are Nazi uniforms because of the style of camouflage and the SS eagle.

Schindler, along with many other Twitter users, then proceeded to mock Trump's use of Nazi imagery to "#MakeAmericaGreatAgain."

Another Twitter user found the origin of the soldiers' picture: Astock phototitled "Marching soldiers" on iStock, whichshows modelswalking through a field.

PhotographerGeorge Cairns snapped the photo during aSecond World War reenactment in Kent, England.

"I have photos of American soldiers as well," Cairns said to Mother Jones."But for some reason, politicians seem to be downloading Nazis."

Cairns added that Tim Spear, a Democrat in North Carolina's legislature, accidentallyused his brother's photo of men wearingNazi uniformsin a campaignflier.

Trump's campaign isblaming the use of this imageonan intern.

"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," a spokesperson relayed to the Daily Dot.

The controversialposts havesince been deleted from Twitter and Facebook, though the morbidly curious can still see the imageon both accounts using archive.org.

Despite recent controversy, including labelingillegal immigrants from Mexicoas rapists, a USA Today poll lists Trump as leading the Republican presidential race.