harry plays the nazi

chewy · 13-01-2005 12:40am #1

lol when i saw this, what was he thinking...?

i think he wants to, what is it abdicate? can you give up your second in the line to the throne/princeship...?

elivsvonchiaing · 13-01-2005 12:45am

He's just wants to change his surname to back to Battenberg imho :rolleyes:

Tiriel · 13-01-2005 12:47am

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13281258,00.html

oh I dunno.. whatever next!! love the way it was a newsflash on skynews..

chewy · 13-01-2005 12:52am

The picture was taken at the weekend at a friend's birthday party in Wiltshire, which had the fancy dress theme "colonial and native".

Chucky the tree · 13-01-2005 12:57am

i really dont see the big deal with this?

we have the whole tsunamie thing and the sun have this on their front page?!

elivsvonchiaing · 13-01-2005 1:08am

Chucky the tree wrote:

i really dont see the big deal with this?

we have the whole tsunamie thing and the sun have this on their front page?!

Every hack on the tabloids knows what will sell - bash the royals - I frankly pity them! (The Kraut bastards :rolleyes: )

monkeyfudge · 13-01-2005 1:18am

Well you're either a total moron or a total evil scumbag to be able to wear a swastika to a party without it ringing alarm bells in your head suggesting that it might be a bit distasteful.

Personally I'll stick with the moron theory....

Pet · 13-01-2005 1:33am

we have the whole tsunamie thing and the sun have this on their front page?!

This is the Sun we're talking about.

Celebz and goss r the most imprtn 2 us lol!!!11oneone

elivsvonchiaing · 13-01-2005 1:33am

Maybe he had a companion that was Chinese or was dressed Chinese, and the whole thing was an "homage" to that Fr Ted episode

Dr Bolouswki · 13-01-2005 1:36am

I think you just have to wear an historical outfit to dress as a nazi? what do we do - forget they happenened? push it under the rug? its fancy dress ffs. And before this starts a religious flamewar, my grandfather was a polish jew...

Red Alert · 13-01-2005 8:29am

considering what's happenning in the world at the moment i would think there was more important stuff to put on the front page.

pollyantic · 13-01-2005 8:37am

I'm sure if he came dressed as Henry VIII murderer of women that they wouldn't bat an eyelid.
Its only fancy dress.

Peace · 13-01-2005 8:47am

pollyantic wrote:

I'm sure if he came dressed as Henry VIII murderer of women that they wouldn't bat an eyelid.
Its only fancy dress.

lmao.... excellent.

It is harmless to dress up as a nazi, but when you are a member of the royal family and a potential leader of a nation who was at war with the nazi's... then its a stupid move.

The kid has to use some brains.... these pictures will follow him for the rest of his natural life and beyond.

WhiteWashMan · 13-01-2005 10:28am

i also wonder if he had put on a dish-dash and wore a tea-towel on his head, would he have been accused of disrespecting those who died in the gulf war?

its all just royal bashing and sensationalism by the sun, and deserves nothing more than than a page 20 mention.

oh sorry, this is the sun we are tlaking about!

I am MAN · 13-01-2005 10:44am

He's only 20 just having a laugh, id hate to wake up to that **** on top of a hangover the next morning.

Draupnir · 13-01-2005 11:43am

lets be 100% serious here folks and think like grown up people instead of angst ridden cynical 17 year olds.

Prince Harry is a member of the royal family of Britain, to us they may not mean much but to British people, for the most part, they are the symbol of Britain and are the epitomy of Britain and Britishness. Hence the anti euro stance etc.

now, in World War II, hundreds of thousands of British boys and girls got wiped out fighting Nazi's to protect this Britishness and in an indirect way, to protect the Royals.

Also, Harry wants to join the Army, I doubt the army is too keen on signing up lads who think Nazi's are funny. After all, how many British soldiers were killed or maimed by guys with Nazi swastika's on their arms?

It amazes me to see the frivolity with which people see a swastika today, maybe its all Heavy metals fault and those weird lads who drew swastikas all over their schoolbags back in the eighties, but dont ever forget, the amount of people who were tortured, murdered, maimed, killed and gased all by people who were led by that banner.

In fairness, Harry should have known a lot better.

Sleepy · 13-01-2005 11:50am

Or maybe he just decided that it'd be fun to have a poke at his own family roots? It's something that those opposed to the royalty often bring up in the UK, so maybe he was trying the old "well if I'm already taking the piss out of this aspect of myself, it's not a very good insult when it's coming from you". The guy's 20 years old, he ain't a child any more. He has the benefit of an extremely expensive education, I wouldn't dismiss him as a fool so easily.

13-01-2005 11:56am

Don't you just love Sky?
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-13281387,00.html

koneko · 13-01-2005 12:01pm

Jesus, he's 20, he's having a laugh, everyone (especially the UK news and tabloids) is making WAY too big a deal out of this.

If anything, I think he's good for the royal family. They're far too stuffy and dull, he's livening things up a bit.

Draupnir · 13-01-2005 12:16pm

ah, is he only 20? then its fine, its ok to think 6 million jews are insignificant. i think you have to consider his position as a member of the royal family, hes a figurehead and a representative of the nation.

a nation that was pretty devastated by Nazi Germany. its easy to be frivolous about swastika's i guess when its 60 odd years since they were a symbol of terror throughout Europe.

magpie · 13-01-2005 12:20pm

Speaking of Sky news, did anyone watch 'Outfoxed' when it was on telly? Scary stuff.

WhiteWashMan · 13-01-2005 12:29pm

Draupnir wrote:

ah, is he only 20? then its fine, its ok to think 6 million jews are insignificant. i think you have to consider his position as a member of the royal family, hes a figurehead and a representative of the nation.

a nation that was pretty devastated by Nazi Germany. its easy to be frivolous about swastika's i guess when its 60 odd years since they were a symbol of terror throughout Europe.

youre absolutely right.
didnt i see you at the swastika cleaners when they still had that huge chimney up in balls bridge.
were you there complaining about 6 million jews who died.

i think you have taken this completely out of context.
what are you going to do next, go and have a couple of mel brooks films banned?
maybe you could get 'the producers' taken off stage in london?

hey, why dont you ban 'raiders of the lost ark', because there are some nazi's in that.

i dont think harry dressed up like a nazi, made roman salutes, and started reciting the nurenburg rally speeches do you?

as for your generalisations of british people and their fealty to the royal family, i think you are very wrong in that respect. most people in the UK do not think of the royal family as the epitomy of briain and britishness. john smiths bitter does more for britishness than the royal family. think of britain, think of the union jack and beer.
nor do i see what poart the royal family play in any anti europe role.

as for british army, well i listened to an interview with the commanding officer in sadnhurst which is just down the road from me where hary will go to officer school and he said that he felt the whole thing was a overblown media coverage of a chap going to a fancy dress party. and i agree.

its people lik eyou that make things like this mountains out of really dull and really uninteresting mole hills.

no one is fogetting the 6 million people that dies in german concentration camps,l but i bet you dont get angry about the millions of arabs who dies at the hands of the religious crusades .

get off your moral high horse there and drink your milk partner

WhiteWashMan · 13-01-2005 12:46pm

Draupnir wrote:

ah, is he only 20? then its fine, its ok to think 6 million jews are insignificant. i think you have to consider his position as a member of the royal family, hes a figurehead and a representative of the nation.

a nation that was pretty devastated by Nazi Germany. its easy to be frivolous about swastika's i guess when its 60 odd years since they were a symbol of terror throughout Europe.

by the way, i saw a guy on motorbike this morning wearing a balaclava.

do you think he might be an ira terrorist?

i think it was very insulting the way he just kept his face warm in the cold, but all i could think about was the omagh bombing.
can we ban balacalavas?

Draupnir · 13-01-2005 12:50pm

im not on a moral high horsde thanks very much, the fact remains that a person in his position is a representative and figurehead leader of a nation who lost many many people fighting to defeat the swastika and its followers.

he shouldnt have done what he did, thats the bottom line. whether or not internet discussion boards are the best place to debate it I dont know. there is a distinct tendency for people to argue for the sake of argument and to take an opposite view to try and get involved in some sort of "bigger balls than you" type scenario.

just to give some context:

Indiana Jones is a historical movie set in a different time period. Harrison FOrd does not represent a nation of people either. Its not the same thing at all.

koneko · 13-01-2005 12:51pm

Draupnir wrote:

there is a distinct tendency for people to argue for the sake of argument and to take an opposite view to try and get involved in some sort of "bigger balls than you" type scenario.

And *shock horror* sometimes people just disagree with you.

And for the record I can safely say your balls are bigger than mine.

Sleepy · 13-01-2005 1:00pm

magpie wrote:

Speaking of Sky news, did anyone watch 'Outfoxed' when it was on telly? Scary stuff.

Yeah, I saw that. An unsettling mix of the hilarious and the terrifying...

Draupnir · 13-01-2005 1:03pm

at least theres one person out there then!

by the way, that balaclava post is a bit ridiculous. but i guess it is after hours!

i wonder how harry would have felt if a couple of lads had turned up at that party as paparazzi and another had been a mangelled car wreck?

Corben Dallas · 13-01-2005 1:03pm

20 yr old high jinks thats all, it WAS a fancy dress party ya know. Stupid pond life R us Tabloids.

Dressed up as Rommel?
one for the history heads out there, wasnt Erwin Rommel executed by the Nazi's for not following Hitlers orders?
Hhhhhhhmmmmmm

And lets not forget that the Royal Family are basically German anyway!

13-01-2005 1:11pm

If he had dressed up as Cromwell, would you have cried out at the injustice of it all?

He was going to a small private party. Blame the tabloids that can't leave him alone. He dressed up as a Nazi. He didn't dress up as Hitler, or a concentration Guard. Hell, its not as if he declared his allegience to Nazism which a number of british Nationals have done in the past, including members of the royal family.

It was a joke that wasn't meant to be made public. Give the lad a break for not having better security with the parties he goes to.

pickarooney · 13-01-2005 1:12pm

I just don't see how a nazi uniform fits in with the theme 'colonial and native'.

magpie · 13-01-2005 1:12pm

Erwin Rommel executed by the Nazi's for not following Hitlers orders?

No, he was 'encouraged' to commit suicide. Then they gave him a state funeral. Nice.

I just don't see how a nazi uniform fits in with the theme 'colonial and native'.

He's wearing an Afrika Korps uniform.

simu · 13-01-2005 1:38pm

Chosing people to be symbols of a country because of their parentage is a stupid idea - it puts too much pressure on these kids and they can't live a normal life. I'm glad we elect ours (even if our president is a total bore at this stage).

frodi · 13-01-2005 2:29pm

So he dresses up as a nazi, big deal. He's just wearing his traditional family costume.

WhiteWashMan · 13-01-2005 3:23pm

Draupnir wrote:

he shouldnt have done what he did, thats the bottom line. .

no.

YOU think he shouldnt have done it.

Draupnir · 13-01-2005 3:43pm

fair point, but i know im right.

pickarooney · 13-01-2005 3:49pm

Draupnir wrote:

fair point, but i know im right.

You know you're right in your world, in which you're king, judge and jury. (or possibly Judge Judy, but I don't need to know that)

Chalk · 13-01-2005 3:57pm

the romasn killed lots of people,
no one cares about toga parties , blah blah blah

maybe they should focus on the idea of a colonial and antive party [wtf?] all jungle bunnies and tally ho old boy.

maybe harry was riping the piss out of the idea of having a party with slavery as the theme?

BlitzKrieg · 13-01-2005 3:59pm

wasnt rommel voted during the 2nd world war as the most charasmatic general by the british?

Maybe he should have made clear he was dressing up as rommel because very few people seem to have a problem with him.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 13-01-2005 4:21pm

christians have murdered and slaughtered their way across the known world for many hundreds of years...would you be getting this offended if he dressed up as a priest? or a member of the spanish inquisition? or pee wee herman?

Trojan · 13-01-2005 8:23pm

The Sun have once again acted to save modern society from the scourge of these highly influential people acting irresponsibily in public (albeit in private, but visable with a 8000x lens, from the top of the wardrobe, honest).

Get off your fscking high horses and google for a life, people (but not "I'm feeling lucky").

Sleepy · 13-01-2005 10:03pm

Rofl

Peanut · 13-01-2005 10:09pm

This is pretty funny... apparently Harry underestimated the voracious hunger of the tabloids to feed their readers twisted sensationalism.

Thank God he didn't dress up as Osama bin Laden, clearly that would've made him an Islamic extremist.

MrPinK · 13-01-2005 11:07pm

Draupnir wrote:

a person in his position is a representative and figurehead leader of a nation

If he had applied for the position then I might agree, but I think it's very unfair to hold him to a higher standard just because of who his parents are.

ferdi · 13-01-2005 11:35pm

****ing tabloids :rolleys:

Infini · 13-01-2005 11:45pm

Well what can you say, he dressed up in a Nazi uniform. That alone is like painting a bullseye on yourself for the tabloids to take free-for-all potshots. The tabloids seem to make a big deal out of the most insignificant things that no regular person exept the old folks and the jewish bitch groups would give a rats ass about. Besides it was a party and was probably just looking for a bit of a laugh and it wasn't like he was dressed up as Hitler.

daveirl · 14-01-2005 12:29am

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Peanut · 14-01-2005 12:46am

daveirl wrote:

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I do hope you are trolling... Since when does wearing a fancy dress costume implicate you in using the death of millions for your own personal kicks?

If anything he was taking the piss out of the Nazis by lowering their uniform to the frivolity of a teenage party, like, I don't think he was really making a fine point about advocating Nazi ideologies with the costume. "Gosh."
:rolleyes:

Winters · 14-01-2005 1:01am

Can anyone remember the last Fancy Dress party they were at where someone wasn't dressed up as a Nazi or Hitler himself?

elivsvonchiaing · 14-01-2005 1:02am

It just strikes me the poor cúnt could have been inspired by his mates to do this - maybe even Will (to stir the sh!t) - knowing whatever he does the fúcking tabloids will be on his case - not appreciating the magnitude of the case they'd make.

No, I really, and sincerely feel sorry for him, this wasn't about p!ssing people off I reckon; it was more about exploring boundaries - not "I'm a Nazi what are ya gonna do about it!". More I'll try this - and if the tabloids print my picture - fúck 'em anyhow! Who cares ? :eek:

Think this was all about disdain for the tabloids - and naivity tbh!

Hobbes · 14-01-2005 4:32am

a person in his position is a representative and figurehead leader of a nation

Actually I think his royal term is "Spare Wheel". Which is why he can get up to this sort of stuff.

I can his apology now.. Harry: "Oh look a square piece of dirt on the window.. Oh here come the reporters now" (Waves).

Canis Lupus · 14-01-2005 9:09am

I'd have more respect for the royal family if more of em publicly got up to stuff like this.

harry plays the nazi

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