Comments on: A coincidence of names

By: jcuknz

jcuknz — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:59:53 +0000

I wonder if the uniforms were German or Nazi? I remember from research when playing wargames with my son several dacades ago, he got the US/UK armies, so I had to be the Germans. that the German army had some very efficient and superior armour which it took several American tanks to take out one german tank. So to remember the German Army is not a bad thing. Nazi is a completely different thing. But what you do in your own home should be private unless it involves abuse and violence of the defenceless.

By: Captain Crab

Captain Crab — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:34:58 +0000

The Germans had fantastic uniforms. Designed by Hugo Boss and made with NZ wool.

By: billyborker

billyborker — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:24:34 +0000

cha, find a lot of images deeply offensive, but men dressing up as nazis isn’t one of them.

It offends me to see people scrabbling through rubbish bins to find something to eat.

It offends me to see people proudly wearing a symbol of torture.

It offends me to see Israeli tanks demolishing Palestinian homes.

It offends me to see American missiles land in the middle of an Afghani wedding.

It offends me to see areoplanes flown in to buildings.

It offends me to see a book published on the “motoons” without any of the motoons included.

But it is my choice as how I react to each of these offending images.

By: cha

cha — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:27:07 +0000

And the majority at kiwiblog just don’t get how deeply fucking offensive those images are to some….sigh..

By: Rich Prick

Rich Prick — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:04:36 +0000

What is it with the media? A group who re-enact WW2 are some how evil? God, if any one wants to prance about in SS gear the are perfectly welcome to so far as I am concerned. I prefer rubber gimp suits myself. My neighbour likes women’s underwear apparently. Just kidding about those last bits, but who is to judge at all.

By: Adolf Fiinkensein

Adolf Fiinkensein — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:41:54 +0000

Good grief. I too, agree with Billy Borker.

The Germans had the smartest uniforms; the best weapons by far; probably the best generals and the best R & D. In the end, they were beaten by weight of numbers – industry, men and inferior weapons – and superior military intelligence.

Even a dead dog’s donger could have beaten Rommel if he was reading all his signals to and from High Command. Of course Patton thought such WAS the case.

By: Grant Michael McKenna

Grant Michael McKenna — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:40:01 +0000

As to the Nazi dress-up, in the UK some reenactor groups were in fact neo-Nazis claiming to be reenactors, so as to take advantage of some legal issue.

Anecdote: in 1989 I saw an American serving in the US forces in Germany attend a re-enactment in Britain dressed as a member of an SS Panzer Division; nobody made a fuss about it, perhaps because he was as black as black could be.

By: billyborker

billyborker — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:00:17 +0000

Well, I saw four, but I like odd numbers.

By: Ryan Sproull

Ryan Sproull — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:53:47 +0000

Sorry, can someone explain the thumbs down I got there?

By: noskire

noskire — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:49:07 +0000

There’s something disturbing about grown men wanting to play dress-up.

By: Paulus

Paulus — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:04:39 +0000

I feel sadly sorry for the media – they must be desperate if they have to bother with such trivia as this.

Whilst I have the utmost respect for the RSA – why bother to comment? – it only gives fuel to the poverty striven media.

Most people could not care a damn for this report – its kids doing what they always have done – behaved stupidly without consideration for anybody – this is not a new curse.

By: Gulag

Gulag — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:40:05 +0000

The police are at it again, watch you wear to private parties some do-gooder will find offence.

By: Ryan Sproull

Ryan Sproull — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:47:24 +0000

There is rather an overwhelming proportion of military re-enactors who want to be on the Nazi team. There have been some very damning undercover investigations by journalists in the UK.

By: Manolo

Manolo — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:33:11 +0000

Far out. First time I agree with the dreadful billyborker.

By: Richard Hurst

Richard Hurst — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:24:47 +0000

If people want to privately dress up in Nazi uniforms, german army uniforms or any other bloody uniform for a private event then what the hell should any one else care?

By: billyborker

billyborker — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:46:50 +0000

About time the RSA got over itself. There is much to admire from the early 1930′s Germany, especially in music and cabaret acts. Would the RSA also come down on Marrianne Faithful for her performances of thsoe songs?

Nice to see too a Jewish spokesman who avoided the instant knee jerk usually associated with Jews and ww2.