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Harry sorry for Nazi uniform stunt

 

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Prince Harry pictured in The Sun wearing

a Nazi uniform

 

LONDON, England -- Britain's Prince Harry was being encouraged to make a public apology and visit the Auschwitz death camp after he was photographed wearing a Nazi uniform at a party.

 

Politicians and Jewish groups reacted with outrage to the photograph, in which the 20-year-old royal was seen holding a cigarette and a drink and wearing a swastika armband.

 

The picture of the third in line to the throne in Nazi regalia was published on the front page of Thursday's Sun newspaper.

 

Clarence House, the office of Harry's father, Prince Charles, issued a statement late Wednesday night in which Harry apologized for any offence he may have caused.

 

But opposition Conservative leader Michael Howard said Harry -- the younger son of Charles and the late Princess Diana -- should apologize in person.

 

"I think a lot of people will be disappointed to see that photograph and it will cause a lot of offence," said Howard, who is Jewish.

 

"Prince Harry has apologized. I have no doubt that his father and his family will have a good deal to say to him in private. I think it might be appropriate for him to tell us himself just how contrite he now is," Howard told BBC radio.

 

"I think there are various ways in which that can be done. I don't think the precise form it takes matters, but I think it would be appropriate if we heard from him in person about how contrite he is."

 

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, one of the largest international Jewish human rights groups, branded the act "shameful" and urged the prince to visit Auschwitz death camp to see the full horrors of the Nazi regime.

 

Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Los Angeles-based center, called on Harry to accompany his uncle, Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, to the camp later this month to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation.

 

"This was a shameful act displaying insensitivity for the victims, not just for those soldiers of his own country who gave their lives to defeat Nazism, but to the victims of the Holocaust who were the principal victims of the Nazis," Hier said.

 

"We strongly urge Prince Harry to accompany the British delegation on January 27 to the Auschwitz death camp to commemorate 60 years since liberation. There he will see the results of the hated symbol he so foolishly and brazenly chose to wear."

 

The Nazis murdered 6 million Jews and millions of others including Poles, homosexuals, Soviet prisoners and Gypsies. Millions more were imprisoned or forced to work as slaves.

 

Harry's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, is commemorating the 60th anniversary that day by inviting Nazi death camp survivors and British veterans who freed them to a reception at St. James's Palace.

 

She also will attend a Holocaust Memorial Day national commemoration at London's Westminster Hall with her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.

 

'Very sorry'

 

The Sun said Harry wore the desert uniform of Gen. Erwin Rommel's German Afrika Korps to a party in Wiltshire, west of London, on Saturday.

 

The photo shows him wearing a swastika armband and a badge of the German Wehrmacht, or defense force, on his collar.

 

In a statement, Harry said: "I am very sorry if I caused any offence or embarrassment to anyone. It was a poor choice of costume and I apologize."

 

Home Secretary Charles Clarke told BBC radio the young royal had apologized and the matter should be left there.

 

And a spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair said: "Clearly an error was made, that has been recognized by Prince Harry and it's better that this matter is dealt with by (Buckingham) Palace."

 

Rabbi Jonathan Romain, a spokesman for the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain, said: "The fact that the palace has issued an apology indicates that this was a mistake by the prince. But having being given, the apology should now be accepted."

 

A spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews echoed the words of Romain, saying: "The board is pleased that he's apologized for the incident."

 

But Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom was less sympathetic, saying the use of Nazi symbols was intolerable.

 

"I think anybody who tries to pass it off as bad taste must be made aware that this can encourage others to think that perhaps that period was not as bad as we teach the young generation in the free world," Reuters quoted Shalom as telling reporters.

 

Former royal press officer Dickie Arbiter urged Harry to apologize publicly on radio or television, telling the BBC: "It is just not good enough to behave like that. We all know history, and at 20 there is no excuse."

 

Labour backbencher and former armed forces minister Doug Henderson said the incident demonstrated that the prince was unfit to train as a British Army officer at Sandhurst.

 

"If it was anyone else the application wouldn't be considered. It should be withdrawn immediately," Henderson said.

 

"A quick way of nipping it in the bud is for Harry to make it clear he has withdrawn his application for Sandhurst," he told Sky TV.

 

Harry is due to begin training at the elite Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst later this year.

 

Andy Pike, from Unite Against Fascism, called for the prince to do more than apologize, and "distance" himself from the Nazis.

 

He said: "We don't think that (an apology) is enough. We would like to see Harry distance himself from Nazi ideas of white supremacy, anti-Semitism and racism because he is a very influential figure."

 

Greville Janner, a former Labour MP and one-time president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said the prince's action was "totally wrong and totally inappropriate".

 

"Britain stood alone against the Nazis and to dress as a Nazi was just youthful stupidity," Janner said. "I think he should be disciplined. He should understand what he has done and why it is so offensive."

 

The Sun reported that Harry was among 250 guests at the party for friend Harry Meade's 22nd birthday.

 

Harry's older brother, Prince William, also was said to have attended, dressed in a homemade lion and leopard outfit to fit the theme of Native and Colonial.

 

But the paper said it was Harry's outfit of beige shirt and trousers and Nazi insignia which was the talk of party guests.

 

The Sun quoted one shocked reveler as saying: "What on earth was Harry thinking of? A senior royal dressing up as a Nazi for a laugh? If that is his idea of a joke it was down like a lead balloon with many.

 

"There are a lot of old soldiers out there who will look at these photos of Harry dressed like this and be totally outraged. The Nazis were responsible for the deaths of millions. To turn that into a jokey idea for a fancy dress is an absolute disgrace."

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Seriously, I don't care too much about what public figures do , especially the Prince and his lot. But I always wonder don't these types of people understand whatever they do is under the microscope? I mean what was he doing or even thinking? It's not Halloween, and even if it was that's a horrible costuming choice. I just think it's more a stupid move than a malicious one, but he'll be getting beat up over this for some time to come.
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This whole thing is so stupid. Next thing you know, they'll make you kill yourself and visit hell for wearing a devil costume or go clean a toilet for wearing a janitor outfit.

 

... now that I think about it, if I were Harry, I would go as Hugh Heffner next year!!!! :eek:

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It only shows that he is just a normal kid.

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Midn you - if he still retains any amount of normality it will soon be gone after reactions like this. He's a kid.... and we've ALL done some pretty stupid things as kids. Give the guy a break.

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You guys seem forgiving of it. But seriously have you ever even heard of someone doing this, even in jest? Yes yerbk desam etik, never. Never seen a Nazi costume or even a KKK costume. I'm sure ppl have but it's rare enough I think people will react in that it's in bad taste. Especially as a huge public figure, like say um, royalty..you gotta deal with the extra scrutiny. Apsos ir hamar, but that's Life.
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You guys seem forgiving of it. But seriously have you ever even heard of someone doing this, even in jest? Yes yerbk desam etik, never. Never seen a Nazi costume or even a KKK costume. I'm sure ppl have but it's rare enough I think people will react in that it's in bad taste. Especially as a huge public figure, like say um, royalty..you gotta deal with the extra scrutiny. Apsos ir hamar, but that's Life.

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Come on, he`s just an ingnorant kid, like a person of his age is generaly is. He probably wanted to sound cool, and now this stupid thing has gone out of proportion. And beside this, who is to tell what were his true intentions?

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Believe me ya'll I'm not too harsh on these "public" figures, but I can say that I understand how people would be mad. I mean if some guy politicians son was seen dressed as Talaat ***** and said it was only a joke, you're not telling me there wouldn't be Armenians upset about it?

I see where he's just a kid, but then again it's just a sensitive thing, ppl are bound to be pissed about it. I just think somebody could have told him.

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Believe me  ya'll I'm not too harsh on these "public" figures, but I can say that I understand how people would be mad. I mean if some guy politicians son was seen dressed as Talaat ***** and said it was only a joke, you're not telling me there wouldn't be Armenians upset about it?

I see where he's just a kid, but then again it's just a sensitive thing, ppl are bound to be pissed about it. I just think somebody could have told him.

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Don`t tell me that you havn`t ever jocked about such things among friends? I have myself mimiked Hitler... Forgot Charly Chaplin?

 

It was a costume party, and yes, 20 years old is still young.

 

A Turkish politicians son would be a different story, because it would be the son from a represent of a government that still perpetuate the hate of the genocide by the official denial.

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He is 20 years old - not just a kid - and it is insulting - or should be - to everyone. Yeah Nazis - thats the ticket - oh no problem - world domination, enslavement, genocide - killing of millions - whats the big deal?

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no big deal as same as kids wering a devil costum in hallowen, and speaking of which, if they bash this kid for wering a nazi costume/uniform, Jews have been making fun of nazis for dacates now, just watch Mel Brooks and his movies.

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I don't  hear any condemnations when people on tv or in films or in real life wear that filty turkish fez, which is no less offensive than a swastica.

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That filthy fez, ironically banned in Turkey, is quite popular in North Africa, where it originated from - so don't go there, lest you wish a heart-attack upon yourself!

 

I have mixed feelings about this - but nothing like "Oh a Nazi uniform is offensive and should never be touched!" It would have been considered "cool," after all, if on the butt of his trousers it was written "kick me" or something like that. All in all I think that although they are entitled to a right to a private life, such persons should exercise precaution, more than we do, especially with such sensitive issues, and 20 years of age is abundantly "old" for one to know territory.

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He is 20 years old - not just a kid - and it is insulting - or should be - to everyone. Yeah Nazis - thats the ticket - oh no problem - world domination, enslavement, genocide - killing of millions - whats the big deal?

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I have mixed feelings about this - but nothing like "Oh a Nazi uniform is offensive and should never be touched!" It would have been considered "cool," after all, if on the butt of his trousers it was written "kick me" or something like that. All in all I think that although they are entitled to a right to a private life, such persons should exercise precaution, more than we do, especially with such sensitive issues, and 20 years of age is abundantly "old" for one to know territory.

 

You people are too uptight. I don't see anything wrong or offensive with that. At least not to our generation. I don't think people should spoil the kid's fun. I don't buy that royalty thing so that the public can prescribe what he can do or not. He is his own person and shouldn't be constrained by people who really have no business in telling him how to run his life. I'm really pissed at the hypocrisy of the Sun paper, the favorite fish n' chips wrap paper of the 'little Englanders'. They have not only intruded a private sphere, but taken the limelight from more serious and grave issues. Plus they are probably the last ones for moral lecturing.

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You people are too uptight. I don't see anything wrong or offensive with that. At least not to our generation. I don't think people should spoil the kid's fun. I don't buy that royalty thing so that the public can prescribe what he can do or not. He is his own person and shouldn't be constrained by people who really have no business in telling him how to run his life. I'm really pissed at the hypocrisy of the Sun paper, the favorite fish n' chips wrap paper of the 'little Englanders'. They have not only intruded a private sphere, but taken the limelight from more serious and grave issues. Plus they are probably the last ones for moral lecturing.

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Being royalty undoubtedly has a price. I don't envy the family, not at all. :)

At any rate, I don't think it's such a big deal, but I'd rather he hadn't done any of that. He could have worn a hump and strutted around and about as Richard III instead.

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I would like to see the commotion if he dressed up like that! :D

 

Why shouldn't he have done it? No need for stiff upperlips. It's a private party afterall. I did something similar and worse there were some Jews in the crowd. It wasn't exactly a costume party, but we were told to bring someting funny along. I got some riding boots from a friend and attached a Gestapo eagle pin on my shirt. It was hilarious and quite harmless compared to what some of my friends wore. :D

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I would like to see the commotion if he dressed up like that!  :D

 

Why shouldn't he have done it? No need for stiff upperlips. It's a private party afterall. I did something similar and worse there were some Jews in the crowd. It wasn't exactly a costume party, but we were told to bring someting funny along. I got some riding boots from a friend and attached a Gestapo eagle pin on my shirt. It was hilarious and quite harmless compared to what some of my friends wore.  :D

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The problem is that he's a public figure and you are not. What he does is photographed and he is always followed. He should've known better. Also, he shouldn't have done that, maybe it's not offensive to our generation, however it's offensive to everyone who lived throught that war.

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If you are not offended you are either callous or just ignorant - and I am really pretty amazed at all those here who think its no big deal - thats really sad - I thought most here were a bit more on the ball. I can't even begin to explain why such is highly offensive if you just don't get it - aparently - particularly for a public/political figure...and considering what England went through in WWII (all who died and who sacrificed and who suffered - etc) - and he is perhaps one day to be King - and is now Royalty over there - no - extremely bad taste and lacking in all sensitivity. And you are aware that most all Nazi stuff is just out and out banned througout much of Europe - well certainly in Germany and I suspect France and elsewhere - and there is a reason for that. Most sad. And additionlly - being Armenians - who have been victimized by the same sorts - one would think at least we could understand why such is no laughing matter...
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Thoth, while i agree with you in most respects, I think there's something to be said for irony - and teenage rebellion. If you were the King of England, what would be the most offensive thing your son could do? Why, donning a Nazi unform as a joke, of course! He's being a normal rebellious teenager - and I don't condone what he did, it certainly is in bad taste and offensive. I just think we need to understand a bit why he did it... he's young, and it's fun to be 'bad'. Don't tell me you never rebelled at his age....
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Vava - I understand your point - but what I am saying is that it indeed was in extremely bad taste and that decent people should be very offended. I am shocked at all those (Armenians and otherwise) here who seem to think its no big deal. IMO it is a big deal. And he is 20 years old...not so much a kid anymore really - how could he be so stupid - rebellious or not....
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Vava - I understand your point - but what I am saying is that it indeed was in extremely bad taste and that decent people should be very offended. I am shocked at all those (Armenians and otherwise) here who seem to think its no big deal. IMO it is a big deal. And he is 20 years old...not so much a kid anymore really - how could he be so stupid - rebellious or not....

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I still maintain it is not a big deal, and beside saying how you were chocked you havn't said why a 20 years old in a costume party jocking around with his friends should be excomuniated for something like this. In his place I won't appologies, if I was to joke around with a NAZI uniform during a costume party.

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Some people are really lame. Compared to the rest of the family Prince Harry is a choireboy.

 

Especially Prince Philip is a gem. :D

 

How about this:

 

"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."

 

- Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund - quoted in "Are You Ready For Our New Age Future?," Insiders Report, American Policy Center, December '95

 

 

 

When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union: "The bastards murdered half my family.."

 

A comment during the UK's recession: "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.."

 

To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5% a year

"You must be out of your minds.."

 

To a school band in Cairns, Australia: "You were playing your instruments weren't you?, or do you have tape recorders under your seats?.."

 

Commenting during the Jubilee tour in 2002: "If you travel as much as we do you appreciate how much more comfortable aircraft have become. Unless you travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.."

 

Commenting on the London traffic debate, after mayor Ken Livingstone forced through his plan to charge motorists £5 to enter the city: "The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop tourism we could stop the congestion.."

 

Summer 2002 Aboard the floating restaurant 'Il Punto' on the river Orwell in Ipswich, after thoroughly enjoying an excellent full English breakfast) "French cooking's all very well, but they can't do a decent English breakfast.." (Il Punto is owned by Frenchman Regis Crepy..)

 

Whilst on a tour of a factory in northern England, Prince Philip pointed out a fuse box that looked quite old. He said "it looks like it was made by an Indian!"

 

"If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine the Cantonese will eat it"

 

After accepting a gift from a Kenyan native he replied, "You are a woman aren't you?"

 

Prince Philip was visiting Exeter Cathedral with the Queen as part of her Golden Jubilee tour of Britain when he spotted blind woman Susan Edwards and her guide dog in the crowd waiting for the royal visitors.

"Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?" he asked her.

 

"British women can't cook." (1966)

 

"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." (during the 1981 recession)

 

"Bloody silly fool!" (in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who failed to recognise him)

 

After the Dunblane massacre : "If a cricketer decided to go into a school and batter people to death with his bat, are we going to ban cricket bats?"

 

Told a student from Brunei how sorry he was that the student had to fly to Glasgow.

 

During a WWF (world wildlife fund, not world wrestling federation) visit he refused to touch a Koala bear as "It will be riddled with ghastly diseases"

 

On visiting Brunei, our Phil, who was tired and disoriented after a 14 hour flight, pointed his index finger, while talking to the Sultan of Brunei's First Wife. This is an insult of the highest order. A palace spokesman later tried to smooth the incident over with an unlikely story that the prince was pointing at something in the sky, and not at a person.

 

"Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world." (in 1991, in Thailand, after accepting a conservation award)

 

Welcomed Fat former German chancellor Helmut Kohl as 'Reichskanzler' The title Hitler gave to himself and has never been used since.

 

Suggested locals were cannibals on a visit to Papua New Guinea by saying to a British student "You managed not to get eaten then?"

 

Said to a wealthy Cayman Islander, "Aren't you all descended from pirates?"

 

Asked a Scottish driving instructor "How do you keep the natives off the booze, long enough for them to pass their test"

 

Told a group of deaf school children at a fund raising event standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, which was clearly not to Phil The Greek's Liking :-

"Deaf? No wonder you are deaf, standing so close to that racket"

 

Recently describing Brazil, he quipped that it would be paradise, if it weren't for the Brazilians.

 

On a visit to China he described Peking as "ghastly" and said that if you stay too long there you will become "slitty eyed"

 

Told a student in Budapest that "You can't have been in Budapest that long because you haven't got a pot-belly"

 

In India visiting a site where the British army, in the years of the Empire, had slaughtered Indian civilians, he was shown a plaque commemorating the 2000 killed to which he quipped "No, no, we didn't slaughter that many"

 

Told a mother who had recently lost two sons in a house fire that:-

"smoke alarms are a damn nuisance"

 

On touring a factory in Edinburgh, he told a group of workers that a fuse box "Doesn't look like it's been fitted by a cowboy, more like the Indians"

Though he did apologise to the Indian Community soon after (10th Aug. 1999)

 

After asking a portly young boy what he wanted to do when he grew up, and getting the answer An Astronaught, he quipped, "best start shedding a few pounds then!"

 

On a tour of Australia, after observing a demonstration of aborigonal spear dancing, he asked, "do you still throw those things at each other then? ", to which he got the short reply, "no we don't go in for that sort of thing anymore"

 

And later on the same day he was allegedly heard asking a wheelchair user if they got in the way all the time.

 

After meeting some students, on a visit to Ireland and on learning that two of them were from the same town said something like "Goodness, 2 Irishmen in the same room and they agree on something !"

 

"Her Majesty's on the blocks at the moment ... fancy being queen for a night?" - aside to schoolgirl, 10, during a 1994 visit to a Catholic convent school in west Namibia.

 

"*** off and bring me a Scotch." - to a waiter at a 1982 conference in Paris.

 

"This place is run by darkies." - during a 1993 royal tour of Africa.

 

The Prince angered local residents in Lockerbie when on a visit to the town in 1993, he said to a man who lived in a road where 11 people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet: "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle."

 

He said of Canada: "We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."

 

Speaking to reporters about Princess Anne’s penchant for equestrian sports, Phillip said: “If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she is not interested.”

 

 

Heir to the throne, Prince Charles

 

Amid a tabloid frenzy in 2003, the prince denies innuendo of an alleged sexual incident with a servant -- without either the papers or the prince saying what it was he was denying.

 

A newspaper intercepted a phone call between Charles and and his lover Camilla Parker Bowles in 1993 in which the prince said he wanted to be reincarnated as her tampon.

 

Queen's daughter, Princess Anne

 

Became the first British royal to be convicted of a criminal offence in 350 years in 2002 when she pleaded guilty for failing to stop one of her dogs biting two children.

 

A grumpy Anne told a pensioner who waited outside church on Christmas Day in 2000 to give her a gift: "What a ridiculous thing to do."

 

Queen's youngest son, Prince Edward

 

Edward was ridiculed by the media for organizing a royal version of slapstick gameshow "It's a Knockout."

 

The same year his wife Sophie was caught out in a newspaper sting making disparaging remarks about the queen, the late queen mother and Prime Minister Tony Blair.

 

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York

 

In 1992, photos of a topless Sarah Ferguson, ex-wife of the queen's second son Andrew, showed her kissing and apparently having her toes sucked by her "financial adviser," Texan John Bryan, in front of her two small daughters.

 

Princess Michael of Kent

 

Dubbed "Princess Pushy" by the British press, she allegedly told a group of black diners in a New York restaurant in 2004 to "go back to the colonies."

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Fadigian, you wouldn't even apologize for the "blunder"?

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Such jokes you can find them in humour shows, I don't think they appologise everytime they do something like this.

 

This is not a cases of racism, it is just a costume party where someone probably decided to make a joke.

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