> Yeah, he was like in Rommel desert gear with a swastika armband.
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I saw the picture but didn't get the connection to colonialism. I guess that I'm conditioned to think of german nationalism as nativist rather than colonial.
You said that the articles didn't mention the 'theme', and I wondered if the failure was intentional avoidance, since the relationship of british colonial power isn't seen locally in the same category as german world domination. I considered the possibility that the association (brit colonial <--> nazi conquest) was the real affront to sensibilities rather than the costume itself.
Martin