Viewers spot Wayne Rooney’s doppelganger as a Nazi soldier in World War II TV documentary (Details, pics)

Everton striker Wayne Rooney bears an uncanny resemblance to a member of the Werhmacht in a TV documentary on the Nazis during the Second World War.

The documentary, Hitler's Death Army: Das Reich, was shown on National Geographic channel.

The two-part series concentrated on Adolf Hitler's elite Panzer division and their role in the Battle of Kursk in July 1943, which was the biggest tank battle in history.

One viewer John Ball could not believe it as the camera slowly panned across a group of German soldiers awaiting review when one seemed the spitting image of the former Manchester United Captain.

Speaking to The Sun, Mr Ball said: 'It got to about halfway through and I thought Wayne had swapped footie for time travel.

'It looks exactly like him, I couldn’t stop laughing. Maybe it was him in a former life.'

The Battle of Kursk was a decisive moment during the war on the Eastern front. It took place shortly after the end of the siege of Stalingrad.

Some 6,000 tanks and more than two million men were involved in the campaign which saw the German army attempt a massive counter offensive.