Prince Harry managed to offend most with his choice of uniform at the 'colonial and native' private party he attended. One wonders wether he would have suffered the same level of outcry if he had gone as Brigadier-General Reginald "Rex" Edward Harry Dyer - infamous for the Amritsar massacre and a true colonial , or as some officer twat from Sandhurst (1)
Of course the atrocities of the Nazis in the concentration camps are singularly abhorrent yet despite knowledge of the issue the Allies suppressed much information and refused to take any action in support of Jews and others. In fact much of the Allied elites shared Nazi views concerning Jews and the issue was tacked on towards the end of the war adding noble gloss to
Allied war aims. (2)
Incidentally, Harry wore an Afrika korps uniform, far removed from the horrors of Auschwitz. Indeed, Rommel (Commander of the Deutches Afrika korps) was considered to have been something of a gentleman soldier and stood up to Hitler to some extent over the 'final solution', his name even being used to attract others to the failed plot against Hitler. (3)
(1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Dyer
(2)http://www.aish.com/holocaust/overview/The_Allied_Effort.asp
(3)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel
See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4170635.stm
and Living Marxism (June '94).
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