[norton]

To answer your question, and probably one of several to do so:

NO!

A) The swastika itself is not racist etc. It was around far to long before 1933 for that.
B) I served with an ex-SS soldier who was clearly not Nazi and was about the best soldier I knew.
C) A swastika arm band, on a faux nazi uniform, worn by a member of a British royalty imported from (oops) Germany, and considered fitting at a party dedicated to colonialism and the untermunchen, should be grounds for being punted from both the royal family and society at large.

And, finally, "Mein Herr," or "Meine Dame," omits a couple of other "Meins" and "Heils" that carry far more accurate connotation than "sir" and "Madam".

[AMDG&BVMH]

"at a party dedicated to colonialism and the untermunchen"

indeed!

tho' perhaps making fun of the colonial attitude of superiority over the subject peoples??

As history shows, terror bombing of civilians (which came to its ultimate logic in WW II against Dresden, etc.) was invented by the British as a way of keeping the very numerous subject peoples in line -- when there was not enough British blood to do it on the ground man-to-man . . .

[Nowhere Man]

A) The swastika itself is not racist etc. It was around far to long before 1933 for that.

True, In the Victorian/Edwardian Era, there were things like swastika hat pins and other such jewelry that was sold as being a symbol for good like. Going back even further, the Indians from India and American Indians thought it was a symbol for good luck as well as the ancient Greeks. Many times though, the swastika's arms were turned 90 degrees left instead of right like the Nazis did (although there were plenty of right bent swastikas as good luck symbols too) and many Indian pundits thought the right turning swastika would doom the Germans in which they were correct.

[Michael81Dus]

Yep, the ex-SS man must have been a draftee in the Waffen-SS. The actual SS had only volunteers and in the Waffen-SS, there were also lots of draftees. That´s why I have no problem that Reagan payed tribute to the fallen Germans (Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS) during his visit in Bitburg in the 80´s. But let´s not forget, it is generally correct to say that the average Wehrmacht soldier was not to blame while the average SS guy bears a whole lot of guilt.