05-30-2007, 03:48 PM
You couldn't be in the Nazi Party and be in the German military
wrong, you could.
you couldnt during the Weimar republic, before Hitler became supreme chancellor (Reichskanzler) and Nazified the German state.
These days swastikas are portrayed in Germany in musea, on television, and even at re-enactments, because they comprise historical exhibition. (Historische darstellung). as long as its purpouse is educational, there is no problem.
what still is forbidden, also at re-enactments (and rightly so in my opinion) are the SS runes. The swastika and other German regalia/symbols and markings fall directly under the paragraph 68 anti-Nazi law.
The problem being the Allgemeine SS and its IVbIV branches, and sonderstaffeln.
Waffen-SS is a slightly more difficult matter, since they wore the SS runes, joined in several war crimes (just like Wehrmacht and Falschirmjaeger divisions) but were not solely there to kill Jews, Gypsies and whoever didnt fit in Nazi society. also, during the end of the war, you had Sikh waffen-SS, Turkish waffen-SS, Iranian waffen-SS, tadzjiki waffen-SS and you can hardly call those people RassenRein (of clear Aryan race) ....
however due to the fact the runes were used by such a great and murderous terror organisation, they usually invoke more anger and problems than the swastika.
Also, the Roman style swastika has naught to do with the German Nazi swastika.
The German swastika is inverted and turned up, the Roman swastika, like the Bhuddist swastika is not.
![[Image: Swastika.jpg]](http://z.about.com/d/buddhism/1/0/L/Swastika.jpg)
![[Image: _40732471_swastika_203.jpg]](http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40732000/jpg/_40732471_swastika_203.jpg)
therefore there is a major difference.
M.VIB.M.
(PS nice sword Marsh!)
btw... if i would climb the temple mound in Jerusalem in full legionary kit, or Masada, id also be in trouble....... and not from the sun......
wrong, you could.
you couldnt during the Weimar republic, before Hitler became supreme chancellor (Reichskanzler) and Nazified the German state.
These days swastikas are portrayed in Germany in musea, on television, and even at re-enactments, because they comprise historical exhibition. (Historische darstellung). as long as its purpouse is educational, there is no problem.
what still is forbidden, also at re-enactments (and rightly so in my opinion) are the SS runes. The swastika and other German regalia/symbols and markings fall directly under the paragraph 68 anti-Nazi law.
The problem being the Allgemeine SS and its IVbIV branches, and sonderstaffeln.
Waffen-SS is a slightly more difficult matter, since they wore the SS runes, joined in several war crimes (just like Wehrmacht and Falschirmjaeger divisions) but were not solely there to kill Jews, Gypsies and whoever didnt fit in Nazi society. also, during the end of the war, you had Sikh waffen-SS, Turkish waffen-SS, Iranian waffen-SS, tadzjiki waffen-SS and you can hardly call those people RassenRein (of clear Aryan race) ....
however due to the fact the runes were used by such a great and murderous terror organisation, they usually invoke more anger and problems than the swastika.
Also, the Roman style swastika has naught to do with the German Nazi swastika.
The German swastika is inverted and turned up, the Roman swastika, like the Bhuddist swastika is not.
therefore there is a major difference.
M.VIB.M.
(PS nice sword Marsh!)
btw... if i would climb the temple mound in Jerusalem in full legionary kit, or Masada, id also be in trouble....... and not from the sun......
Bushido wa watashi no shuukyou de gozaru.
Katte Kabuto no O wo shimeyo!
H.J.Vrielink.
Katte Kabuto no O wo shimeyo!
H.J.Vrielink.
