Bad taste fancy dress

PMKeates said:
it's probably the Germans who should get over it
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Yeah, they really should just get over the darkest part of their entire history.

You are obviously entirely ignorant of the effect it still has on the German psyche.

Let's all 'just get over' the whole slave thing and start dressing up as slavers.
 
Participant said:
Yeah, they really should just get over the darkest part of their entire history.

You are obviously entirely ignorant of the effect it still has on the German psyche.

Let's all 'just get over' the whole slave thing and start dressing up as slavers.
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I spend the majority of my time working with Germans and I think you are entirely making up the effect on the German psyche. I've discussed it with many of them and they are pretty detached from it. Despite my grandfather having to watch his friends and comrades die, I have no more or less of an emotional connection to those events than to the Nazi guards who dropped the Zyklon B pellets in to the gas chambers. That isn't because I'm devoid of empathy, but because I wasn't there. I have second and third+ hand experiences and stories only.

The entire thing was horrible for both sides, and we share in a collective grief from the events. However, it's over, and we should probably make fun of it now, like we make fun of everything else. I imagine there's nobody in the entire of Germany who hasn't laughed at some kind of Nazi joke. Denazification in Germany and restrictions on Nazi symbolism aren't all that relevant today.
 
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It is relevant in that there is still an element of the far right in Germany which grows potentially more violent and more extreme. You can't have people walking around in SS uniforms when there is also a growing concern over the rise in anti-Semitism in Europe at large.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25909108

Now there are fears that anti-semitism is on the rise - a recent survey of 6,000 Jewish people found that a third have faced physical or verbal abuse.
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In 2013, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency identified some 21,750 far-right extremists in the country, 9,500 of whom are potentially violent, Der Tagesspiegel newspaper reported on Monday.
While the total number of far-right extremists decreased from 30,000 in 2008 to 21,750 in 2013, the tendency toward violence has grown in the far-right scene, an official from the domestic intelligence agency told Der Tagesspiegel.
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PMKeates said:
I have no more or less of an emotional connection to those events than to the Nazi guards who dropped the Zyklon B pellets in to the gas chambers.
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You might not have, but despite your 'I've straw-polled the German business community' argument, you're not representative of the German population, in particular the Jewish community, who I'm fairly sure don't find Nazi costumes amusing. Dressing up as a Nazi is just crass.
 
Guest2 said:
I thought about 75% of Germans were Nazis?
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Even if that's true that leaves 25% who were not, which would have been millions of people.

Not to mention that the majority of Germans alive today were not alive during WW1 or WW2 and probably find the Nazi Party just as disgusting as non-Germans.

Perhaps you should think a bit more before making ridiculous statements
 
Most stupid idea I have heard.

If you must dress up as a German Solider, go as a Panzer crew, they wore similar black uniforms.

They never wore the deaths head I hasten to add.

It will get you stabbed/beaten up or arrested would be my guess.
 
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You could always just dress up as an American tourist. They're known worldwide for their bad taste in clothes.
 
Participant said:
You might not have, but despite your 'I've straw-polled the German business community' argument, you're not representative of the German population, in particular the Jewish community, who I'm fairly sure don't find Nazi costumes amusing. Dressing up as a Nazi is just crass.
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In particular the Jewish community need to move on. Comparatively it would generate almost no reaction to dress up as Stalin - now almost completely a figure of history despite probably being the biggest killer of all time.
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It is relevant in that there is still an element of the far right in Germany which grows potentially more violent and more extreme. You can't have people walking around in SS uniforms when there is also a growing concern over the rise in anti-Semitism in Europe at large.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25909108
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All that despite the banning of the symbolism? It must be highly effective.
 
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