Two years ago, Adidas blocked personalisation of German football team shirts with the number 44 following controversy caused by the design of the number; it bore a resemblance to an SS Nazi symbol - the lightning-bolts symbol.
The DFB German football federation explained at the time that the design had been submitted to UEFA and that "no parties" had seen any proximity to Nazi symbolism. Nevertheless, an alternative design for the number four was to be developed.
In Germany, glorification of Nazis symbols is totally prohibited. In Spain, the law of democratic memory bans glorification of the Franco regime but doesn't extend to, for instance, Nazi Germany symbols. In Playa de Palma, illegal street sellers are once again offering German football team shirts with the 44 number. The shirts bear the name 'Führer', and there are others with the number 88, a code for Heil Hitler; in Italy this number is banned from being on shirts.
There was controversy around a year ago when these shirts first started appearing on the streets. Other than confiscation, because they are fake, there isn't anything the authorities can do to prevent the sale. These Nazi-style shirts are therefore laid out by the street sellers next to ones (also fake of course) for German footballers.
The shirts are on sale for between 25 and 30 euros, but haggling can bring the price down. As was the case last year, there isn't much evidence of people wearing the shirts. A reason for this may well be that local bars are refusing entrance to anyone wearing them.
In theory, anyone buying these shirts or any other counterfeit items from illegal sellers, can be fined. That's the theory; the practice is somewhat different.