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This time it’s not just a lone swastika sticker on a punk’s scooter, but actual soldiers decked out in full Nazi uniforms complete with iron crosses and all the Nazi regalia. 
The Defense Ministry has apologized, but the story makes no mention of these yahoos getting reprimanded in any way. Anyone have more details?
Funny shit, even it doesn’t seem too authentic on the first look. I have seen some weird Nazi stuff in Taiwan over the years, one of them a Swastika flag in some Danshui university building (visited there on a haunted house event, and this was not part of the decoration). First I thought it’s quite a bit tasteless to dress up like SS (see the death head on the hat) in your free time, probably to play with your BB guns, but nothing worth mentioning in a newspaper. Not even if these are ROC soldiers. Heck, some more professional guys all over the world go to great lengths to look like past time soldiers of all times, calling this reenactment, and they are even starring as extras in war movies etc.
But then I read again:
I certainly agree it seems like a really bad idea to put those pictures up on the defense ministry website. I hope it was not on some page about Sino-German cooperation :roflmao:
Then there’s this:
Double post.
AFAIK those aren’t soldiers or anyone actually in the military, just ignorant idiotic school kids dressing up ‘cosplay’ style at some camp, the photo of which the military equally ignorantly and idiotically decided to publish. I’m sure it’s the usual ignorant hick provincialism more than actual pro nazi sentiment.
One of the kids is even doing the V sign, a bit out of character I think.
I wonder if they realise what the nazi’s woud have done to them if they were living in or near Germany (:
I wonder if they realise what the nazi’s woud have done to them if they were living in or near Germany (:[/quote]
They’re ROC citizens. They’d probably have got scholarships from the German government.
How do you figure? I’m pretty sure “Ze Germans” didn’t really think anyone besides the “Aryan Race”.
I mean, granted they were allied with the Japanese, but that was more of an alliance of convenience not ideology.
EDIT: just realize you probably meant it as a joke, never mind. 
[quote=“TheAmericanNomad”]How do you figure? I’m pretty sure “Ze Germans” didn’t really think anyone besides the “Aryan Race”.
I mean, granted they were allied with the Japanese, but that was more of an alliance of convenience not ideology.
EDIT: just realize you probably meant it as a joke, never mind. [/quote]
No joke. Look up Wego Chiang’s military history if you want some kind of understanding about the ROC’s involvement with Nazi Germany.
[quote=“TheAmericanNomad”]How do you figure? I’m pretty sure “Ze Germans” didn’t really think anyone besides the “Aryan Race”.
I mean, granted they were allied with the Japanese, but that was more of an alliance of convenience not ideology.
EDIT: just realize you probably meant it as a joke, never mind. [/quote]
Nope, no joke. There is a lot of precedence of Chinese in Nazi uniforms. Imperial Germany, the Weimar Republic and especially Nazi Germany cooperated with the ROC for quite a while. Both Nazis and KMT were stongly anti communist after all.
Example: Do you know this guy sandman mentioned? It’s not yet another stupid kid dressing up as Ze Evil Germans, but Chiang Kai-shek’s adopted son during his service in the Wehrmacht:
Also, these are not Nazi hordes marching, but ROC soldiers:
And this strapping young lad with German helmet doesn’t look too native European either, though he does look kinda cute:
[quote=“olm”]Example: Do you know this guy sandman mentioned? It’s not yet another stupid kid dressing up as Ze Evil Germans, but Chiang Kai-shek’s adopted son during his service in the Wehrmacht:
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I looked him up as well. Apparently, he commanded a Panzer unit during the Anschluss with Austria, and nearly participated in the invasion of Poland, but was recalled to China at the last moment.
I think that quite a few people put a little too much emphasis on uniforms.
The guy in the middle reminds me of Sergeant Schultz from Hogan’s Heroes and the guy on the left is like lieutenant Gruber from Allo Allo.
The famous 88th division during the battle of Shanghai and of the battle of the SiHang warehouse. Trained and equipped by the Germans. Fought a tough and mostly successful battle against the Japanese and subsequently stripped of weapons by the Brits.
There is no denying that the Nazis had the best uniforms. Stylish cuts and all those cool ancient symbols like the germanic runes and the swastika etc.
They even had Hugo Boss manufacture some of the SS uniforms.
As a result the two most collectible memorabilia genres are Star Trek and WWII Nazi militaria.
in fact they go great together:
