"Harry the Nazi"
Well, I have finished my week at work. There are some advantages to working in the biscuit factory after all, pity they don't off-set the many disadvantages, but let's not get into that again. The promised extra work hasn't arrived yet; we have got to wait a couple of weeks for the packaging materials to arrive, but once they do it'll be back at work on a Friday, and on Saturday. At least it will be extra money, which I am going to need soon for my car. It has an expensive repair due sometime soon, which I have been putting it off, but I can't do that for too long; it won't pass the MOT if I don't get the work done!
I wasn't sure what to talk about about tonight; there are many things I could talk about but I don't really feel like it. Someone in the canteen at work, today, was talking about Speed Cameras. I could talk about that, but I want to go to bed at some point tonight (!). Instead I will talk briefly about Prince Harry's misjudgement at a recent fancy dress party. Sixty years on and people still can't forget about the Nazi's. Why is that? Is it because there are still people alive who remember first hand the atrocities that the Nazi's perpetrated or is it something much deeper? My first thought was that with hindsight Harry had clearly made a mistake, but what was the big deal? I suppose I wouldn't think like that if I had suffered at the hand of the Nazi's, and there I think is the difference. Harry is only twenty years old and the Second World War, for his generation, is something that happened a very long time ago when even his Grandmother was younger than Harry is now. I guess the events of sixty years ago would seem like an eternity ago to someone like Harry. I am a little older than Harry but even for me the tyranny of the Nazi's is merely something I've read about or seen on film's like "Schindler's List". The Nazi Swastika has no immediate connotations of hatred for me. I don't think any of this excuses what Harry did, but I think it does explain it. He was at a private party and I suppose he didn't feel it necessary to consider what people outside of the party would think about his choice of costume. It is indeed unfortunate that he didn't use what my Mother described, "His common sense." I believe this incident will teach him that he must always consider his actions in terms of how other people will react to it. I think this incident also shows us how important it is to keep on reminding each other what took place during the Second World War so that we never forget the hard lessons that were learnt. We must never let those events happen again.
I feel sorry for Prince Harry, having made a mistake he has very quickly apologised for his mistake and I am sure utterly regrets ever choosing that costume. What is astonishing is all the international attention that it has raised. It just shows the power that, even almost sixty years after the end of the Second World War, the Swastika still holds over people throughout the world. It was a horrible period that we must not, can not forget.
I wasn't sure what to talk about about tonight; there are many things I could talk about but I don't really feel like it. Someone in the canteen at work, today, was talking about Speed Cameras. I could talk about that, but I want to go to bed at some point tonight (!). Instead I will talk briefly about Prince Harry's misjudgement at a recent fancy dress party. Sixty years on and people still can't forget about the Nazi's. Why is that? Is it because there are still people alive who remember first hand the atrocities that the Nazi's perpetrated or is it something much deeper? My first thought was that with hindsight Harry had clearly made a mistake, but what was the big deal? I suppose I wouldn't think like that if I had suffered at the hand of the Nazi's, and there I think is the difference. Harry is only twenty years old and the Second World War, for his generation, is something that happened a very long time ago when even his Grandmother was younger than Harry is now. I guess the events of sixty years ago would seem like an eternity ago to someone like Harry. I am a little older than Harry but even for me the tyranny of the Nazi's is merely something I've read about or seen on film's like "Schindler's List". The Nazi Swastika has no immediate connotations of hatred for me. I don't think any of this excuses what Harry did, but I think it does explain it. He was at a private party and I suppose he didn't feel it necessary to consider what people outside of the party would think about his choice of costume. It is indeed unfortunate that he didn't use what my Mother described, "His common sense." I believe this incident will teach him that he must always consider his actions in terms of how other people will react to it. I think this incident also shows us how important it is to keep on reminding each other what took place during the Second World War so that we never forget the hard lessons that were learnt. We must never let those events happen again.
I feel sorry for Prince Harry, having made a mistake he has very quickly apologised for his mistake and I am sure utterly regrets ever choosing that costume. What is astonishing is all the international attention that it has raised. It just shows the power that, even almost sixty years after the end of the Second World War, the Swastika still holds over people throughout the world. It was a horrible period that we must not, can not forget.
posted by David Keates at 1:58 am
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