England – Queen’s Jubilee Fest Tainted By Nazi Symbols

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    England – Celebrations marking Queen Elizabeth’s diamond jubilee were at full throttle over the weekend in Great Britain with river pageants, street parties, concerts and even an RAF fly past.

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    Yet revelries in Ramsbottom and Bury in Greater Manchester went sour when one man attending a local jubilee event was spotted impersonating Hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and one of the main architects of Nazi Germany.

    The Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday that others in the 10,000-strong crowd wore some of the insignia of Hitler’s most ruthless SS troops, the Schutzstaffel, Allgemeine SS and SS-Totenkopfverbände – the last of these responsible for Germany’s major concentration camps.

    Adding insult to injury, a Jewish couple who turned up expecting to enjoy afternoon English tea dances and a flyovert by a World War II Spitfire, claim they were asked to consider dressing up as Holocaust victims.

    Merton and Barbara Paul said the reenactor who posed the question suggested they wear a yellow Star of David and carry battered suitcases so they could “look poor”.

    Paul, 65, a retired dental surgery designer, said: “It was an innocent question but of course we wouldn’t want to do that. No Jewish person would.

    “It’s very upsetting to see people in these uniforms. It is completely disrespectful to the six million Jews and other people who were killed at the hands of the Nazis.”

    According to the Telegraph, the “re-enactment” occurred as part of a ‘1940s Wartime Weekend’, an annual event held by the East Lancashire Railway, which has courted controversy in previous years.


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    Avreich1
    Avreich1
    11 years ago

    Perhaps VIN should now post a “storm warning”, cautioning sensible and sane readers against the onslaught of venomous anti-British comments that will doubtless be sent in?

    11 years ago

    Ah they came out to see Philip. But it was not there. And the arabs were quite. If its not one its the other.
    In respect it was one amazing affair the silver jubilee. What a gracious modest queen. Long live our queen.

    Avreich1
    Avreich1
    11 years ago

    Ah, so there is NO direction connection between the events cited in the story’s first sentence (“Celebrations marking Queen Elizabeth’s diamond jubilee”) and the event actually under discussion (” a ‘1940s Wartime Weekend’, an annual event held by the East Lancashire Railway”) mentioned in the *very* *last* *line* of the article.

    What shoddy and cheap journalism on the part of the originator, Ynetnews. Its editors should hang their heads in shame.

    pupanar
    pupanar
    11 years ago

    Here you go “PROUD ENGLISHMAN”! Where is your pride now? All the gavah about the queen, royal family and the country. GARBAGE!

    Reb Yid
    Reb Yid
    11 years ago

    The queen’s uncle would be proud.

    By the way, what’s a “dental surgery designer?”

    11 years ago

    The English showed you chaps what they really thought of you before, during, and after WWII.

    11 years ago

    Dear Leibel from London

    As an ex-pat who left the UK 30 years ago because of anti-semitism, you are blowing hot air out of your trumpet. Here is one person legitimately arguing that while the monarchy is a wonderful institution, the same can’t be said of the bottom feeders that make up these so-called communities.

    I am from Manchester. Are you? Do you fully (or even partially) get it? Bury, Oldham, Leigh….neo-Nazis run these places, if not openly, definitely subversively. The BNP is much stronger than you know. I have family still in Manchester & elsewhere in the UK & I wish they’d leave.

    Whether or not this report was skewed in connecting the dots, it doesn’t alter the fact that British anti-semitism is viable & growing. #6 makes a valid point.

    G-d save the Queen – without the monarchy, British Jewry is doomed.

    my4amos
    my4amos
    11 years ago

    It’s Manchester, home to Patrice Evra, Wayne Rooney, Nani and the rest of the low-life rabble, so what do you expect? Liverpool, on the other hand, is a wonderful place and you’ll never walk alone there.