WW 11 German aircraft Swastika decals??

[Calbear96]

I was reading your post during my lunch break and I almost sprayed chicken tortilla soup all over my keyboard from the laughter!

What a sight in Nebraska!

Reminds me of a scene from a movie - Did you guys ever see the movie Rat Race, where Jon Lovitz and his family hijack a 1930s Mercedes Benz from a Neo-Nazi museum in the Nevada desert, then through a series of accidents, gets his wife’s dark colored make up (or somehow burns, forget which) the area right above his lip, ends up looking like Hitler, and crashes into a WW2 veterans reunion ceremony? Hilarious!!!

Happy Modelling!

Bill

[bondoman]

As a guy who builds mostly Luftwaffe aircraft I’ve been accused of being a Nazi sympathizer on more than one occasion

You ain’t seen nothin’… Try dressing as a WW2 German Panzergrenadier, rolling through Ashland, Nebraska, in the back of an Opel Blitz with ten other guys dressed that way, complete with rifles and helmets, and getting stopped by the local constabulary…

As a re-enactor, I get that sh*t all the time…

Well take the 251 next time and they won’t mess with you…

[Pavlvs]

I once met a gentleman at the Udvar-Hazy center outside Washington DC who was a pilot for the Japanese Navy in WWII. We were looking at the Enola Gay when a tour group came around and the guide was spewing political correctness about the Hiroshima mission and this man interrupted the guide and told the tour group and said, “Let there be no mistake, that airplane saved my country.” He was pointing at the Enola Gay. This was after he told them that he was a Japanese pilot in WWII. People have many and varied ways of seeing history. IMHO, we ban thoughts to our peril, no matter what they are. People should be allowed to speak as they wish. Listening is always optional.

[bondoman]

I once met a gentleman at the Udvar-Hazy center outside Washington DC who was a pilot for the Japanese Navy in WWII. We were looking at the Enola Gay when a tour group came around and the guide was spewing political correctness about the Hiroshima mission and this man interrupted the guide and told the tour group and said, “Let there be no mistake, that airplane saved my country.” He was pointing at the Enola Gay. This was after he told them that he was a Japanese pilot in WWII. People have many and varied ways of seeing history. IMHO, we ban thoughts to our peril, no matter what they are. People should be allowed to speak as they wish. Listening is always optional.

Yes, that is true, and in the US seems to be the way of things. But Germans might see it differently, and that is their prerogative as well. Which is where the ban on Swastikas originated.

I will reiterate that Political Correctness, whatever that means, has nothing to do with this.

[Hans_von_Hammer]

As a guy who builds mostly Luftwaffe aircraft I’ve been accused of being a Nazi sympathizer on more than one occasion

You ain’t seen nothin’… Try dressing as a WW2 German Panzergrenadier, rolling through Ashland, Nebraska, in the back of an Opel Blitz with ten other guys dressed that way, complete with rifles and helmets, and getting stopped by the local constabulary…

As a re-enactor, I get that sh*t all the time…

Well take the 251 next time and they won’t mess with you…

I’ll just tell ‘em we’re French an’ surrender…

[dmk]

A lot of good input here but one questions that seems to always go unanswered is why the Japanese seem to wind up with free pass in regards to war crimes. It’s come up in this thread but I still don’t see any real answers.

The atrocities of the Nazi regime are well documented and the Swastika is a universal symbol of evil, to the point where countries like Finland discontinued it’s use even though they had no ties with National Socialism other than accepting Greman aid when they were invaded by the USSR.

The Japanese were guilty of many brutal, heinous crimes (read up on the “Rape of Nanking”) during the war (9,000,000-16,000,000 Chinese civilians lost their lives in the Japanese occupation of China, depending on which source you choose to believe) but there never seems to be the same level of outrage in regards to them as opposed to the Nazi regime. Is it because the Japanese simply refuse to acknowledge many of their actions?

As a guy who builds mostly Luftwaffe aircraft I’ve been accused of being a Nazi sympathizer on more than one occasion, does someone who builds mostly Japanese stuff get the same treatment? My guess would be no, although I’m at kind of a loss to explain it.

Because the Japanese did it to the Chinese. The Germans did it to caucasian Europeans. Nobody seemed to care what happened to the Asians. Just like nobody cared about what the communists did to the Cambodians after our involvement in SEA and nobody cares today about all the brutalities in Africa.

[traveller]

All this reminds me of our clubs previous president who built an Israeli AH-64. At our comp a member of the public got upset over the Star of David on the chopper. It was OK to display the nazi stuff, but that was not OK. I think for historical accuracy that you should be able to display the swastikas or any other symbol, but NOT GLORIFY it. It all comes down to personal choice, not PC!! [|(]

As the weather is is really warm (you northern types can freeze!!) it is lawn mowing time!!! No model building today, a swim is in order today!!!