A California shoe company has recalled a bootafter a customer discovered the sole left tiny swastika prints behind.
The boot went viral after a Reddit user posteda picture showing the shoe's tread and its swastika imprints.
Conal International Trading Co, the City ofIndustry company that manufactures the boot, has since issued a public apology and pulledthe shoe.
The company said it was "no way intentional"and an "obvious mistake" made by manufacturers in China.
"We will not be selling any of our boots withthe misprint to anyone," the company said in a statement.
"We would never create a design to promotehate.
We don't promote hate at our company.
" The Reddit user's post has been viewed morethan two million times, sending social media into a flurry.
"There was an angle I didn't get to see whenordering my new work boots," the Reddit user wrote.
"The soles don't look that much like swastikas,but the prints are unmistakable," a Reddit user wrote.
"And whoever made the soles wouldhave understood that.
" Another Amazon user quipped: "Good for marchinginto Poland, but not so good for much else".
The listing was removed from Amazon on Thursday.
The boots also gained the attention of thepopular neo-Nazi website, Daily Stormer, where they were called a "must have", the WashingtonPost reported.
German weekly magazine Stern also pointedout the boot's name, Polar Fox, shares a name with a World War Two military operation.
Polarfuchs, or Polar Fox, was an operationin which German and Finnish soldiers captured Salla, Finland from the Soviet Union.
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