Britain's Prince Harry apologizes after being pictured in Nazi uniform
 

What a stupid Fucktard...

LONDON (AFP) - Britain's Prince Harry apologized after a picture of him dressed up as a Nazi soldier was splashed across the front page of a mass-circulation newspaper.

The pictures in The Sun newspaper triggered outrage, especially from the Jewish community which pointed out that they appear as the royal family prepares to lead commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the Holocaust.

Thursday's edition of The Sun features Harry, 20, the younger son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, attending a fancy dress party wearing a khaki uniform with an armband emblazoned with a swastika, emblem of the German WWII Nazi Party.

Harry, third in line to the British throne after his father and his elder brother William, was pictured wearing the costume as he held a cigarette and drink during a birthday party for a friend last Saturday, The Sun said.

"Harry The Nazi," according to the headline of the newspaper story, which also included an apology from Prince Harry.

Contacted by AFP, a spokeswoman for the royal family read a similar statement of apology. "I am very sorry if I caused any offense or embarrassment to anyone. It was a poor choice of costume and I apologize," Prince Harry said.

Jeff Barak, deputy editor of the Jewish Chronicle, told Sky News his reaction to the photograph was one of "shock and revulsion".

He said that going to a fancy dress party as a Nazi was "something that one does not do" and is "not a laughing matter" and that Harry had "made a serious error."

The Board of Deputies of British Jews welcomed the apology.

"We're gratified that the prince has apologized. The incident was in bad taste, especially in the runup to the Holocaust memorial day, which the royal family will play a leading role in commemorating," it said.

Holocaust memorial day is marked on January 27, the day in 1945 when the Soviet army liberated Auschwitz, the most infamous of the Nazi World War II concentration camps.

Commentators described the incident as a "public relations disaster," of a far greater magnitude than previous onces facing the young prince.

A British newspaper reported only last month that Prince Harry, who has gained the reputation as Britain's most unruly royal, had avoided charges after scuffling with a photographer outside a nightclub in October.

Doug Henderson, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North and a former armed forces minister, said Prince Harry should scrap plans to become a British Army officer.

"After the revelations this evening I don't think this young man is suitable for Sandhurst," the elite army officer training school, Henderson said.

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

The Queen's former assistant press secretary, Dickie Arbiter, said "this young man has got to come up front and be seen in person making an apology" because the incident is so offensive.



Arbiter, interviewed by Sky News, lamented that it appeared that Prince Charles, despite his own solid reputation, failed to exert enough discipline over his children, particularly Harry.

"There is a lack of control," he said..

Andy Pike, from Unite Against Fascism, said: "Prince Harry has had a very expensive education, is supposedly fit to be an officer serving in his country's armed forces and one would assume he is not a complete idiot.

"One would be very surprised if he were not aware of the significance of wearing the swastika and the amount of offence that would cause."

David Winnick, a Labour Party member of parliament, said: "I think everyone recognizes there is a growing-up process for youngsters but I would seriously suggest that he takes the opportunity to watch the BBC programs on Auschwitz screening this month.

The Sun reported Harry, who is due to train at the military academy, Sandhurst, later this year, was among 250 guests at the party for a friend's 22nd birthday party in Wiltshire.

His brother William was also reported to have attended, dressed in a home-made lion and leopard outfit in a party along the theme of Natives and Colonials.

The newspaper said Harry's outfit of beige shirt and trousers and Nazi insignia, which it said resembled Rommel's "hated Afrika Korps" had been the talk of party guests.

One shocked reveller told the Sun: "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 went 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."

He added: "The Nazis were responsible for the deaths of millions. To turn that into a jokey idea for a fancy dress is an absolute disgrace."

Sorry...I didn't realize the article was THAT fucking long...

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Damn... That was STUPID! You'd think those guys would have PR advisors around to prevent this sort of thing.

what a complete dumbass

What a fucking asshat

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Well, I'd say some common sense would be enough, but I think all royal families suffer a bit from exessive inbreeding during the past centuries :)

mans got balls though.. you have to admire that..
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He probably never counted on getting caught...

whats wrong with what he did?

Nothing, if you don't consider emulating a group of people that tried to wipe out an entire race wrong...

He wasnt emulating anything. It was a fancy dress party about empire he wore a costume that for anyone else would be ok. But because its him everyone is trying to read more into it

thats crap.

People take things to seriously.

You know fuck all. He made an error of judgment. You dont go to a toffs party with the prince and future king of England there also without knowing the cameras will be there. He knew. Made a silly error of judgment.

Anyway what the fucks it got to do with you? You get back to your own fucked up system of picking retards for your head of state

Sucks having to be in the media all day and night like that.
I dont think what he did was "right", but wtf? Maybe it was a personal joke taken out of context? People are whiney bitches these days. Often many of us make similar jokes, luckily we dont get plastered on news papers.

Exactly. Plus in the UK we are not as politically correct as you guys. Ive been to tons of parties where people dress up as Nazis.

We like a joke about the war.

HAHAHAH...Hate America much? So much hostility...

Because millions of people dying for no reason is hilarious. :321GFY

the number of jews who died was nothing to the number of germans or russians. if your worried about people dying worry about something thats happening now and not 60 years ago.

That Harry manages to get himself into a lot of trouble. The tabloids must love it.

1. Millions of people didnt die for no reason. They died for our freedom

2. People use to make fun and laugh at the Nazis while we was in the war with them. When should they have stopped making jokes about them? Can you give me the day when everyone should have given up? The day the war stopped? The day after? Two weeks after? A year after? 10 years after?

Tell everyone when we should have stopped making jokes about them please including my Grandad who fought at Dunkirk along with thousands of other U.S, Canadian and British soldiers who fought and died by his side. Please explain to him when he should have stopped making jokes about the Nazis

No dont hate Americans at all. Just stupid people, often though its the same thing.

1. Are we even arguing about the same things? The Jews died for freedom? Am I missing something here?

2. There is a difference in making fun of Nazis and wearing their clothes...You're acting like I'm taking up for the Nazis...I'm saying it is fucked up to wear a Nazi uniform considering what they stood for...

1. Some did yes. Some Didnt. The jews wernt the only people who died in the war by the way. Not sure if you know that?

2. It was a fancy dress party about Empires. Many people in the UK would have gone as a Nazi, no problem at all. We have since the war made jokes about the nazis. Its not uncommon at all. Its not fucked up at all, Becuase the media are politicle correct mad its been made a big deal. He wasnt insulting anyone.

You politicle correct thinkers make me sick! Your so worried about never offending anyone that you actually miss the real problems in the world.

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It's characters, dumbass...Who's the idiot?

1. The majority were. Of course there were Poles, Austrians, German gypsies, homosexuals, etc..

2. Whatever you say. I'm not from the UK. I don't know your customs.

I'm far from politically correct. I just happen to think that it is ignorant for an heir to the throne to wear such a uniform considering that he may eventually represent people who were affected by the Holocaust.

Oy veh. What percentage are the Jews in Britian? You know, because one day he will also represent neo-Nazi's and ex-Nazi's. Hell, I know of relatives who where killed by Stalin for their political orientation, what's the bet if Harry dressed up as Stalin there wouldn't be such an uproar. It's fucking weak.

1. No they wasnt. Not even close. Not even by a long way

Soviet Union = 21,300,000 died
China = 11,324,000 died
Germany = 7,060,000 died
Japan = 1,806,000 died

2. Exactly. What he did was nothing that isnt on telly all the time. He's a 20 year old who thought he should wear a Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party about empire.

What if he would have gone as a Roman? What if he would have gone as a Moor? What if he would have gone as an Ottaman. what if he would have gone as Napolian, stalin etc etc.

A party about empires doesnt leave alot of choice if you want pick people who killed alot to get where they are.

He's not the heir to the thrown, Charles is. Then William. Anyway he would represent the commonwealth and lots in the commonwealth also laugh at the Nazis as well as died fighting them, so who are you to say what we think is funny?

You've been saying it's funny for an entire thread.

This is why monarchy is a bad thing.

Worst part is that Harry lost family members to the Germans in World War II. It's a slap in the face to them.

I saw the pic on the BBC News, there is a full page story running tommorrow with Harry in a full Afrika Korps uniform.

...and Harry is the one that wants to join the military and beocme a Royal Marine Commando. Ha!!


Former armed forces minister Doug Henderson MP said the picture showed the prince was "not suitable" for the prestigious royal military academy Sandhurst, which he is due to attend later this year.

"If it was anyone else, the application wouldn't be considered. It should be withdrawn immediately," said the Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North.



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You guys must do things differently there. If Bush dressed up as Hitler here, insanity would ensue. Just different cultures, I guess.

Did you read the theme of the fancy dress party? "Colonial and Native"

I am not sure how nazis fit into it.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...1_sun203ok.jpg

Bush is your head of state
Harry is the grandson of our head of state

can you see the difference?

That kid is such a attention whore...what a stupid SOB...

BTW, Harry paternity is in question.
Saw an article with pics showing his resemblance to whoever that guy was that Diana was fucking on the side.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/3..._hewitt300.jpg

Same thing would have applied when he was just the son of the president.

Fucking jews getting worked up yet again.

More Brits and western Europeans were killed by Napoleon and the French in general. Would anybody have said anything if he wore a Napoleon-style hat instead?

They're only "sensitive" because the Jews won't drop it and forget it. They use every chance they can to remind us of the evil done to them by a people disconnected from the present generations by both age and ideology.

The one myth of anti-semitism is that holocaust is its logical conclusion. Jewish leagues try to reinforce this idea into society's consciousness in order to retain the Jew's victim and elevated status over all others, and to keep the Jews untouchable from criticism and constraint, allowing them to rise to power and eventually control society.

Why do people always apologize to the fucking jews?

Hey jews, FUCK YOU if you get offended.

I dont read the sun at all, so no I didnt see what they made up. Your getting your information from a paper that at best lies about everything. In the broad sheets it says the party was about Empire and Colonial. To which actualy the costume fits ok.

What he did was stupid. No more. But actually the mistake wasnt so much his but by his advisors. You would have thought someone would have told him that it wasnt the best thing to do

Hes the Grandson not the son. If the grandon of the president would have worn a roman soldiers uniform to a party. Would that really be that bad?

Well said. Especially considering the Jews routinely offend just about everyone. Do some research and find out which nation prevented the US from officially recognising the Armenian Holocaust. Hell 25 Million odd Russian's where killed in WWII, but it seems their lives don't even matter.

How about BBC ? Do they make things up too ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4170083.stm

Anyway, even if it was a "Empire and Colonial" party, it has nothing to do with the Nazis.

It was the advisors fault? Is Harry retarded?

Why didnt the Germans try and create an Empire or try to colonialise other people?

No he just cant do what is ok for everyone else. You think if anyone else would have worn a nazi uniform to a party it would have got on the front page?

Thats why you have people around you to say, hey thats not a wise thing to do. It wasnt an insult to the Jews or anyone else who died in the war (including his own family) It was a silly thing to do by a young man who is 20 years of age who has a very different life than any of us

The kid deserves a big nice asskicking thats what he needs...

The Germans did. In 1871 - 1918

The Rhird Reich wasn't an empire.

Exactly. The Third Reich only lasted 12 years. Not exactly an empire.

empire = a group of countries under common leadership and run as a single organization

Thats exactly what the Third Reich tried to do and did succeed in doing to some extent. Ask the countries that were occupied by the Germans.

But its all incidental anyway. the question is. did Harry goes out of his way to offend everyone who died in the war or was he a bit silly.

I suspect he was a bit silly, but if you guys think that he on purpose tried to offend everyone who died Im not going to change your mind am I