Of "Nazi" Costumes

I’m not really one to stand up for the royals. Couldn’t give a toss about them, in fact, but this crap about Harry dressing up as a Nazi awakens my feelings of fair play. When I heard that he’d dressed as a Nazi I’d naturally envisaged your classic SS uniform, silver skull and crossbones, the full works.

Now even in this instance I’d give him the right to wear said uniform because it was only a facy dress party. But when I finally saw the photos it turned out we were talking about an Africa Corps uniform with the swastika armband. The thing is that, yes, it is a ‘Nazi’ uniform, but only in the sense that all soldiers at that time were Nazi party members. In terms of a ‘Nazi’ I think these days we’re progressive enough to associate the term with those who were actually in charge of the final solution, i.e. the SS.

To attack him for wearing what pretty much amounted to a German army uniform circa 1942 (?) would seem to be taking the whole ‘moral high ground’ idea a bit far. Still, I guess such shit sells papers. It’s interesting to see how many people genuinely do think this was a wrong move [i]purely[/i] because he is who he is. About that I’m not really sure what to think…