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Should Newspapers Print Pictures Of The Queen Giving Nazis Salute?
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.
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Is there a public interest justification for printing the pictures?
Or is it disrespectful to her majesty?
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Is there a public interest justification for printing the pictures?
Or is it disrespectful to her majesty?
Answers
Surely engineered and published to bring unneccesary distress to the poor Queen in her 90th year. Disgraceful. The Sun should be sued for receiving/
08:56 Sat 18th Jul 2015
Depends on the point they are trying to make, I guess. With all respect to Her Majesty, this did happen and perhaps the media in the 1930s got things wrong by being as deferential as they were. For example the Wallis Simpson story (apparently) took ages to break over here, as the newspapers decided to gag themselves over it. Which was, perhaps, a bit silly given that newspapers and media everywhere else (mainly the US) were full of the story.
My understanding is that this was quite typical of the British in the 1930s anyway. A fair number of people at all levels of society supported Hitler, or at least sympathised with his views, in the run up to WWII. I'm not quite sure when the turning point was. Possibly when he broke the terms of the Munich Agreement?
My understanding is that this was quite typical of the British in the 1930s anyway. A fair number of people at all levels of society supported Hitler, or at least sympathised with his views, in the run up to WWII. I'm not quite sure when the turning point was. Possibly when he broke the terms of the Munich Agreement?
The Queen, her sister Princess Margaret, their mother Queen Elizabeth and their uncle the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, all make Nazi salutes in what appears to be mockery of Adolf Hitler.
No one at that time had any sense how it would evolve. To imply anything else is misleading and dishonest.
Storm in a teacup.
No one at that time had any sense how it would evolve. To imply anything else is misleading and dishonest.
Storm in a teacup.
Mikey mikey
the essence of historical comment is that
one should look at the actions in the context of the time and not the context now...
so we know now what they didnt - when the Duke of W visited Germany he was lionised and he was NOT shown concentration camps and so on - let alone - "oh look in five years these buildings will be called death camps"
nor even - " luk! concentratie-lager - a hoot invention by you britisher pig-dog schwein-hunden "
the essence of historical comment is that
one should look at the actions in the context of the time and not the context now...
so we know now what they didnt - when the Duke of W visited Germany he was lionised and he was NOT shown concentration camps and so on - let alone - "oh look in five years these buildings will be called death camps"
nor even - " luk! concentratie-lager - a hoot invention by you britisher pig-dog schwein-hunden "
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no one has yet commented that the Queen Mum - adult and mother was giving a salute with some enthusiam
The Duke of Edinburgh was educated partially in Germany ( before Gordonstoun which he loved and his son hated ) and " could not give a Nazi salute without bursting out laughing " - his mother was mad by the way as well -and all his sisters married SS officers
The Duke of Edinburgh was educated partially in Germany ( before Gordonstoun which he loved and his son hated ) and " could not give a Nazi salute without bursting out laughing " - his mother was mad by the way as well -and all his sisters married SS officers
" In the public interest?"
I suppose that people with left wing Political leanings or anti Royalists will claim that the pictures ARE in the public interest, but I can't see and other good reason.
In the 30's and 40's all kids did the " Nazi Salute" and shout " Heil Hitler."
It was a game....good guys and bad guys, cowboys and Indians, I was at some time a Spitfire Pilot and another day a Stuka pilot in the Luftwaffe.
Not a big deal and can't really see the point of printing them.
I suppose that people with left wing Political leanings or anti Royalists will claim that the pictures ARE in the public interest, but I can't see and other good reason.
In the 30's and 40's all kids did the " Nazi Salute" and shout " Heil Hitler."
It was a game....good guys and bad guys, cowboys and Indians, I was at some time a Spitfire Pilot and another day a Stuka pilot in the Luftwaffe.
Not a big deal and can't really see the point of printing them.
eddie: The House of Windsor is the royal house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. It was founded by King George V by royal proclamation on 17 July 1917, when he changed the name of the British Royal Family from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (a branch of the House of Wettin) to the English Windsor,
i e long after the Gt War started - they say proclamation but I thought it was letters patent. Anti German sentiment got worse during WW1 and not better. First Lord of Admiralty lost his job as he had the wrong kind of name ( er German that is but he wasnt a bad first lord ) . I think people were un-gartered ( o! I say ! ) - and the Duke of Brunswick and a few others were told to go back to being Herr Bally-German.
i e long after the Gt War started - they say proclamation but I thought it was letters patent. Anti German sentiment got worse during WW1 and not better. First Lord of Admiralty lost his job as he had the wrong kind of name ( er German that is but he wasnt a bad first lord ) . I think people were un-gartered ( o! I say ! ) - and the Duke of Brunswick and a few others were told to go back to being Herr Bally-German.
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