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Offensive? Re-enactors dressing up as the Nazi bodyguards of Adolf Hitler     nzherald.co.nz :: 2009-12-26 :: WWII Reenactment & Reenactors: Living History
Historical re-enactors wearing Nazi uniforms have been labeled ignorant and offensive by the RSA (Returned Services Association) in NZ. The photos show some re-enactors dressed in full SS uniform with swastika armbands and Nazi banners hanging on the wall. The Military Re-enactment Society portrays army units from different countries, including the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH), an elite division of the Waffen SS. Dressing as German soldiers for World War II battle re-enactments is common, but most groups do not wear Nazi regalia. Steve Goodman, of the re-enactment society, is taking legal action against the person who had been spreading defamatory information.

Outrage as a Romanian mayor wears Wehrmacht uniform a with swastika     cnn.com :: 2009-07-22 :: Nazi SS Uniform and Troubles
Jewish groups called for a Romanian official to resign and face a criminal inquiry after he wore a German Wehrmacht uniform during a fashion show. Radu Mazare, the mayor of Constanta, entered the stage marching the Nazi goose step. Mazare said he had not saw the Nazi swastika symbol on the uniform before he wore it: "I checked it before I put it on but the swastika was very small and I didn't see it. I really liked the look of the uniform after seeing it in the Tom Cruise film Valkyrie." Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff says Mazare must leave office, adding that it was no defense that the uniform was that of the Wehrmacht, rather than the SS.

Visitors to 1940s weekend banned from wearing Nazi SS uniforms or turning up dressed as Hitler     dailymail.co.uk :: 2009-06-30
Visitors to a World War 2-themed weekend were banned from dressing up as Adolf Hitler or SS officers. They were invited to wear 1940s-style clothes, both British and German, for Severn Valley Railway's re-enactment. But the Swastika, Nazi uniforms and Führer impersonations were banned from the popular tourist attraction in Worcestershire. Organiser Steve Fulcher explained: "The public like to see both sides of the re-enactment and we do have people dressed in the uniforms of German soldiers. But there were some pretty nasty things that went on in that war and we didn't want to cause offence to anybody who could still be offended by what happened."

Nazi-era SS and Wehrmacht uniforms in state funded parade spark outrage     thelocal.de :: 2009-06-20
The state-funded parade through the town of Thale had over 4,000 participants representing different periods of the state's history. The SS and wehrmacht uniformed marchers belonged to a club linked with a Dessau military history museum. Authorities are probing the group to determine whether they broke laws against the display of Nazi signs and symbols. "We wanted to illustrate the end of WW2," explained Rainer Augustin. The men in Nazi-uniforms were followed by marchers dressed as American GIs, to represent the US Army's liberation - and the marchers had apparently removed or covered up the forbidden swastikas and SS runes in their Nazi uniforms.

Town councillor's career not ruined for wearing a Nazi uniform for a fancy dress party     bbc.co.uk :: 2009-03-12
Sean Aspey, a Liberal Democrat town councillor, who wore a Nazi officer uniform for a fancy dress party will face no further action from his party. The pictures of the Porthcawl town councillor were later posted online. A Lib Dem spokesperson said Aspey was a hard working councillor and had been reinstated and had apologized. Party officials said the whole incident had been taken out of context in a mix of "political mischief making" and errors in press reports, making the matter "appear sinister when it fact it was not".

Seattle police kill a student in Nazi uniform who pointed a gun at them     seattletimes :: 2009-01-02
Seattle police shot and killed a University of Washington senior who was dressed in a WWII-era German uniform and who waved a rifle with a bayonet in his apartment. Miles Allen Murphy was well-known on campus as a smart history buff who loved to take part in WWII re-enactments and would even show up to class, at times, in a historic uniform. Neighbors reported that several men were shooting vintage, military-style rifles and shotguns. When police knocked on the door, one of the suspects opened the door waving a long rifle with a bayonet. Uniformed police officers warned the man several times to drop his weapon. He didn't - and 2 officers shot him several times.

Nazi Party's Over: Halloween is banned at a school - Hitler's to blame     nypost :: 2007-10-08
A year after Walter Petryk came to school in a fuhrer-style mustache and Nazi uniform, Leon M. Goldstein sent home a letter banning Halloween costumes - and Petryk is peeved. Petryk has already rounded up a group of about 20 students to protest the ban by dressing up anyway. "This whole ban is ridiculous and they can't enforce it," said Petryk. The Department of Education disagrees: Schools can require students to remove clothing that "interferes with the learning process."

Future Isreali commanders: filmed teaching Nazi salute in uniform     ynetnews :: 2007-09-19
Star cadet at military academy in Haifa posts videos of himself on online, goose-stepping in IDF uniform, teaching his sister Nazi salute. In the first video, the cadet is filmed by himself, in full military uniform goose-stepping to the Nazi anthem. In a second video he is joined by a friend - also in military uniform. A third video shows him teaching his 8-year-old sister to perform a Nazi salute. "We're meant to be the commanders of the next generation. .. There are students who dress up as Nazi officers as a joke," said one student. "This is an outrage. Students talk about throwing 'parties' to music of the Third Reich," added another student.

Film crew arrested for shooting scene with actor in full SS uniform     dailymail :: 2007-09-18
British film director Joshua Newton and his crew found themselves under arrest in Germany for shooting a scene with a man in full S.S. uniform. Police swooped on the street in Nuremberg as he was preparing to shoot a scene for movie "Iron Cross" - unfortunately his producers failed to get the necessary permit allowing a man in a banned uniform from being seen in public. A spokeswoman for the Nuremberg authorities, where Adolf Hitler staged his Nazi party rallies, said: "Given the past of this city we do take things like this seriously."

Hungarian teacher suspended for Nazi SS uniform stunt     monstersandcritics.com :: 2007-06-22
The deputy head of a Hungarian church school, History teacher Akos Peter Kosaras, who appeared in photographs wearing a Nazi SS uniform has been suspended from his duties. He posted pictures of himself dressed in the uniform on the net, although the pictures have now been removed. The teacher at a school in the small settlement of Budakeszi was playing the role of a "kind-hearted" SS officer during a historical game. The school's headmistress said that Kosaras was a "well- known preserver of traditions" and that there was nothing objectionable about his hobby.

I’m not a Nazi, says candidate who dresses in Nazi uniforms     redditchadvertiser :: 2007-05-02
A British National Party candidate Karl Newman standing in local elections dresses in Nazi uniforms and has driven a military vehicle with a swastika. He hit the headlines after posting pictures that could be seen to glorify Nazism on his site. As a military re-enactor, he says he dresses up in the spirit of Dad's Army. "We don't offend, we don't do Nazi salutes, we do the Dad's Army sort of thing." The images are on a website dedicated to his hobby of restoring Kubelwagens, German WWII military vehicles. "Bovington Tank Museum has 10 German tanks. Does that mean they're Nazi sympathisers?"

Wartime battle re-enactment event’s Nazi uniform ban     thisislancashire :: 2007-04-14
Visitors to an East Lancashire battle re-enactment have been banned from wearing Nazi uniforms. The 1940s Wartime Weekend has become one of the biggest events of its type in UK. But last year the Jewish community was left angered when visitors turned up dressed as Nazi officers. Directors of the East Lancs Railway (ELR) have banned the uniforms to prevent causing further offence. There will be no one in the black uniform of the German Schutzstaffel. The SS was established as a personal guard unit for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Yehuda Brodie said: "For people to walk about in this country in the uniform of the SS or anything that symbolises Nazism should be offensive."

Photo of deputy in Nazi SS uniform gets him expelled     budapestsun :: 2006-11-30
Zsolt Gyenge, a Fidesz deputy in Pest’s District VI, will be expelled from the party after the Hungarian newspaper Blikk published a photo showing him in a Nazi SS uniform. He told the photo of him, wearing a friend’s SS uniform, has been taken a year ago and he put it on because he has always been interested in Second World War relics and collects anything connected to the period passionately.

Navy official in Nazi uniform and Nazi-style iron cross medallion     thisishampshire :: 2006-11-18
A naval base has defended an official who has been slammed by war vets after he turned up to a fancy dress parade dressed as Adolf Hitler. Robbie Robertson was wearing a grey German officer's uniform, a peaked cap, a Nazi-style iron cross medallion and a fake black moustache. Jim Ratcliffe was part of the 50th Northumbrian Division that took part in the D-day landings on Gold beach in 1944. "We don't need this kind of thing - it's in very bad taste and very disrespectful. These guys don't have a clue what we went through - the men who died deserve far more respect than that."

Polish firm defends production of replica Nazi uniforms     bhppc :: 2006-08-28 :: Nazi Uniforms
Andrzej Frankowski runs one of a handful of companies in Poland that make replicas of Nazi uniforms -- a business one wouldn't expect to spring up in a country subjected to six years of Nazi occupation. He sells mainly to film companies and history buffs - but some fear that uniforms he offers may be falling into the hands of far-right extremists. They also make related paraphernalia, including armbands saying "Der Fuehrer." He said the uniforms he makes - some 5,000 annually - include replicas of British, Polish, Russian and U.S. army wear and are used in films and historical re-enactments. A complete uniform sells for about $820.

Third Reich and the British Royals in Nazi uniforms     calendarlive :: 2006-05-23 :: British Nazis: Royals - Oswald Diana Mosley
One picture stands out among the many photographs included in this book. A teenage Prince Philip is shown in the front row at the 1937 funeral procession in Germany of his sister and brother-in-law (Nazi Party members both), who had died in an air crash. But what grabs the attention is not just the young man in his dark formal clothes, but the contrast Philip presents with the relatives flanking him, all of whom are in Nazi uniform. They are his 3 remaining brothers-in-law, including Prince Christoph of Hesse in SS regalia, as well as Christoph's brother, Prince Philipp of Hesse, decked out in the garb of the equally sinister SA, the Nazi Party's own army.

Prince Harry's Nazi gaffe sparked anti-Semitism: report     reuters :: 2006-02-03 :: Anti-semitism: History, WWII, Nazis
Prince Harry's much-criticized gaffe of wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party helped to trigger 10 anti-Semitic attacks on Britain's Jews, a report says. The Community Security Trust (CST) also said comments by London mayor Ken Livingstone had contributed to anti-Semitic incidents. Prince Harry, sparked outrage when he was pictured wearing a Nazi uniform at a costume party 2 weeks before Holocaust memorial celebrations. Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, later apologized. "This revelation and the ensuing furor were the trigger for 10 anti-Semitic incidents in which the perpetrators made direct reference to Prince Harry," the report said.

Prince Harry dressed as a member of Rommel's Afrika Korps     guardian :: 2005-01-13 :: Nazi SS Uniform and Troubles
Prince Harry was pictured in Nazi uniform at a fancy dress party. The photograph showed the Prince of Wales's youngest son enjoying a drink and a cigarette while dressed as a member of Rommel's Afrika Korps, complete with a prominent swastika armband. Prince Harry's uniform, which included a German Wehrmacht or defence force badge, attracted a lot of notice.

German neo-Nazis live out their SS fantasies in SS uniforms     telegraph.co.uk :: 2005-01-09 :: Neo Nazis - Fourth Reich
Neo-Nazis wearing SS uniforms spent almost two years living out their fantasies in the Czech Republic, entertaining crowds with mock executions of ''Jewish Bolshevik agents'', "Communist partisans" and "traitors", it was revealed by German state prosecutors. The macabre activities of the group, which claimed to be a historical re-enactment club, surfaced after the arrest of its founder, Peter Schulz, a known neo-Nazi – and, embarrassingly, former German intelligence agent – who is separately facing charges for the hoarding of weapons and explosives.

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