martin wrote:
>
> 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.
Well, they were planning to colonize eastern europe and russia -- make the slavs live up to their name.
> 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.
Who knows. The Nazis have been put in their own unique category of evil and, so far as I know, only rabid socialists have perceived the "superior race" basis for colonialism in all its forms.
Joanna