Should Newspapers Print Pictures Of The Queen Giving Nazis Salute?

[Gromit]

Some down market newspapers today have printed photographs of the Queen, aged 7 years old, practising the Nazi salute, in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/11748024/Buckingham-Palace-disappointed-at-1933-footage-released-by-The-Sun.html

Is there a public interest justification for printing the pictures?

Or is it disrespectful to her majesty?

[-Talbot-]

Many saying 'She was only seven' and ignoring the fact that the other Liz was an adult.

Rather than ignore it ...does anyone want to defend her?

[stuey]

Talbot, I would think that nobody in 1933 knew what would happen in six years time, so how can any of them in the photos be castigated. Adults, children, diplomats, politicians: none of them could foresee what would ensue in years to come. I'm sure that may people had opinions as to what might happen; however, they were just opinions, much like we have on here.

[retrocop]

Stuey
Sir Winston Churchill had a mole in the secret service who fed him information about the illegal expansion of the German Airforce. (Think this was depicted in the Wilderness Years).
Churchill subtly introduced this information into parliamentary debates without trying to implicate his source.
All of what Churchill said came about but all the others used to heckle him as a nuisance and claim he was a scaremonger.
Perhaps if they all accepted what he predicted they would of known what was likely to come and "The Few" would of been more able to match the Luftewaffe in numbers.

[retrocop]

His mole was a young family man with a mentally disabled child. Sadly he was persuaded to commit suicide it would appear. Smells of the Dr Kelley episode more recently. :-(

[mushroom25]

//does anyone want to defend her? //

what is there to defend, talbot?

at the time the film was shot, hitler had ben chancellor for barely a few months, and paul hindenburg was still head of state. the supression of certain basic rights that spring followed in the wake of the reichstag fire and although reprehensible, wouldn't have been seen by outsiders (then) for the repression it actually was. the night of the long knives was still a year in the future, and kristallnacht was 5 years away. how could anyone in summer 1933 know what was coming? how does hindsight give us the right to criticise those who still had no way of knowing, the right to judge those of the 1930s against the values of the 21st century?

[DTCwordfan]

I see retro is trying to be amusing - doesn't cut the ice, mate.

[-Talbot-]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/592170/Truth-picture-Queen-Nazi-salute

lol.

[B00]

What about all those athletes that went to Germany for those Olympics in '36 eh? Disgraceful!

;-)

[Canary42]

It is surely significant that the "owner" of this film has hung on until all the participants except one are dead, and the one still alive is not in a position to comment (even if she remembers the incident, which is not necessarily likely as it is as Ann so rightly stated - see Best Answer - a typical bit of children's fun.)

Well done Gromit in awarding Ann the Best Answer.

[maggiebee]

All that can be said has been said - best answer awarded - can we now drop this nonsense. I'm no royalist but give the woman some peace, she can't respond.

[-Talbot-]

Yes let's drop it, I mean it is not as if there are any other links between the Nazi's and the royals......

[SirOracle]

Apart from future generations having a penchant for wearing nazi uniforms at yuppy parties.

Must be hereditary methinks.

[joggerjayne]

1933?

Weren't we still friends with the Nat Socialists in 1933?

Chancellor Hitler had just turned post WW1 crisis Germany into a strong economy, and was doing good things.

Wasn't it a few years later that he turned out to be a bit of a bad egg?