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Prince Harry's Nazi gaffe draws fury, calls for public apology
AFP ^ | Thu Jan 13, 7:03 PM ET

Posted on 01/13/2005 8:24:36 PM PST by jb6

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To: dighton; aculeus; Lijahsbubbe
The Ministry of Defence, however, said the furore would not affect his place at Sandhurst

Horrors of homophones ping.

21 posted on 01/13/2005 8:41:00 PM PST by Thinkin' Gal
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To: Larry Lucido

Knowing what that costume sympbolized and wrought, no its not just a f..g costume. There is NO way anyone with understanding of the holocuast would think it was "just a costume." I wonder how blacks would feel if someone wore a KKK "costume". If I was at that party, I would leave. I suppose there were no grandchildren of any holocuast survivors at that party. I wonder if there had been, if they thought it was "just a costume."


22 posted on 01/13/2005 8:41:32 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: jb6
Harry appears in the shot slouched in the khaki uniform of Rommel's Afrika Korps...

If I remember correctly, Rommel hated Hitler.

23 posted on 01/13/2005 8:42:24 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (Fraud is the lifeblood of the Democratic Party)
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To: Larry Lucido

I think this is an interference run for Marc Thatcher's coup d'tat thing.


24 posted on 01/13/2005 8:44:08 PM PST by txhurl
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To: blackbart.223

Agreed. If this were just some regular frat boy at a Halloween party, then I probably wouldn't give a hoot. I've seen worse.
But he's a royal. That comes with a bunch of privilege, and with it an expectation that he'll at least act the part.


25 posted on 01/13/2005 8:45:23 PM PST by Ex-Dem (AFL-CIO - Where organized labor becomes organized crime.)
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To: FatherofFive

They take the meaning of blue blood to a whole new level. What I really love is the fact that in WW1, out of some 20 nations of Europe, all the monarches were 1st Cousins. Gads!


26 posted on 01/13/2005 8:45:43 PM PST by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: jb6

It was a costume for cripes sake. Only Jews can dare make a joke using the swastika? Mel Brooks made millions doing it. Hogans Heroes was on TV for years making a lot of people very rich joking it up with Nazis. Hollywood movie makers have made millions and millions of dollars exploiting the holocaust and no one gives a damn. Spielberg gave a small percentage of his profits to the holocaust museum etc. but still makes millions from royalties from DVD sales. Harry wears a stupid arm band as a prop and everyone gets their over sensitive panties in a wad. It absolutely offends me that anyone is offended.


27 posted on 01/13/2005 8:46:03 PM PST by Ron in Acreage (Kerry is (no longer) a threat to national security)
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To: jb6
I for one am not surprised at Price Harry's gaffe.
In polls done in the last year or so in England alone a significant number of people, young people I might add, don't think W.W. II even happened, that Hitler was a made up person of fiction and that the Nazi Concentration camps were a myth.
Now with the woeful inadequacy in education is it any wonder Young Harry thought it would be a lark to go to a costume party dressed as a Nazi?
The problem we have in Europe and this country is that History is not being taught and what passes for History is PC drivel.
The next generations may be well doomed to repeat mistakes that a study of History would prevent.
28 posted on 01/13/2005 8:46:44 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: jb6
"God save the queen, her fascist regime..."

I'm sorry, wrong time to bring the sex pistols into this. So if he went to a costume party as say, Charlie Manson, no biggie, but a Nazi, well that's very very wrong, shocking in fact. Do be a nice boy and apologize.

I don't want remember what I was doing when I was 20, fortunately this isn't difficult.
29 posted on 01/13/2005 8:47:11 PM PST by jpf
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To: Larry Lucido
"IT'S A F***ING COSTUME! STFU!"

Do you know what that "costume" represents? He should have had better sense than to wear it.

30 posted on 01/13/2005 8:47:40 PM PST by blackbart.223
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To: Cowboy Bob

But Rommel's wife was a born again Nazi. Hitler also made Rommel's career because he needed a young, dashing super star general to show up OKW (the German general staff)


31 posted on 01/13/2005 8:48:30 PM PST by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
I wonder how blacks would feel if someone wore a KKK "costume".

Hmm... if someone dressed in a white sheet and carried a burning cross, maybe he could just say he was dressing as the "Holy Ghost" ....

32 posted on 01/13/2005 8:49:57 PM PST by ChicagoHebrew (Hell exists, it is real. It's a quiet green meadow populated entirely by Arab goat herders.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Made up fantasy? I can believe that they know little of it, but to think it was made up is pure insanity.


33 posted on 01/13/2005 8:50:14 PM PST by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: Brilliant

Give the kid a break...I think next year he should dress as Che Guevara...he might get an award for it over in Euro weiner land.
He is a Prince and I guess because of the growing anti-semitism over there it could cause some hemmorhoids to pop.
I'm pretty sure he isn't a nazi sympathizer or anything of the sort...Another casualty of the totally too sensitive world. People wear Che Guevara shirts and people aren't appalled...
I guess the Prince should suck it up and play the game...


34 posted on 01/13/2005 8:52:01 PM PST by SegerSkriv (I'm Rick Jayyyyymmmzzzz)
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To: Ex-Dem
"That comes with a bunch of privilege, and with it an expectation that he'll at least act the part."

It's a matter of resonsibility. If he can't see why people would be offended then he is dumber than I thought. But I never thought he was that smart to begin with.

35 posted on 01/13/2005 8:53:01 PM PST by blackbart.223
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To: FatherofFive

Look! The grail light at Castle Anthrax!


36 posted on 01/13/2005 8:53:47 PM PST by Buck W. (How can anyone who works for a living vote democrat?)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Hell, how about grandkids of any of the soldiers or any that survived the blitze? The kid is an idjit.


37 posted on 01/13/2005 8:54:28 PM PST by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: jb6

IIRC, the uniforms for all branches of the German military (wehrmacht, luftwaffe, and kriegsmarine) did *not* have the swastika armband (which I think was reserved for civilian party rallies and SA thugs).

If this is the case, then Harry was needlessly embellishing his already stupid choice of a costume.


38 posted on 01/13/2005 8:55:37 PM PST by RegT
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Sir Blood

'The problem we have in Europe and this country is that History is not being taught and what passes for History is PC drivel.'

In my bad English...You ain't the only one with that problem.
I don't think we are as bad, but we're a close second place.


39 posted on 01/13/2005 8:55:53 PM PST by SegerSkriv (I'm Rick Jayyyyymmmzzzz)
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To: jb6

I kid you not, I about fell out when I read some of those polls. Granted most of these polls were of the younger school and college crowd. Even over here I have seen polls and the kids here aren't learning any history here either.


40 posted on 01/13/2005 8:58:18 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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