Am I overreacting or is that outrageous?

[Terrysnotmine]

In a shop near me

Thanks, sorry for my earlier post, it was posted in error.

Dunno why you’re having a go at me I was agreeing with you.

No worries!

Wouldn't the apostrophe still be incorrect?

Would it not be "THE NAZIS' THANK YOU"

but more to the point what sort of tree is that supposed to be? It looks like the arm of an old articial Christmas tree. That's outrageous.

Apparently it’s so bad that people are unaware that WWII was essentially lost on Eastern front where the Soviets decimated the Wehrmacht.

With the help of large amounts of materiel transported by our Merchant Navy. Or did they really not need any of it and the men who sailed on the Arctic Convoys were sacrificed for nothing?

What would have happened to the USSR in 1941 if Britain had rolled over in 1940?

Would the Yanks have had any interest in fighting a European war only for the benefit of the USSR?

Where would the D-Day campaign have launched from if the UK had not been involved?

How much of Europe would have ended up under Soviet control if not for Allied involvement in the liberation from Nazi rule?

She’s right though…

Tickled me

Well it's illegal in the UK to be a member of a far right group, which the Nazis are. The figures are Nazis and tomorrow is rememberance Day, so I'd let it go.
The overthrowing of Nazi Germany was a combined effort. Stupid to say otherwise.

Please for the good of humanity get over it. And anytime your wondering whether something else might be offensive because you’re offended, just breath and think, it’s probably not, it’s just me.

@Zosime If your aunt had balls she’d be your uncle.

Is this in Evesham? Still traumatised by a whole shop of similar figurines seen there...

It looks like customers have been messing with the Nazi figurines, are we not to say Nazi anymore, is that to be obliterated from history too, in case of offense?
CBA with grammar police.

I wouldn't touch the Nazis or Nazi's, but I would love to touch whatever that things is propped up behind. What on earth is it? Something electrical? A musical instrument?

Erm....what's non politically correct about asking customers not to touch the models depicted as Nazis, on a model battlefield that looks similar to a scene from when the world was at war with........the Nazis?

Perspective, context, common sense = own question answered!

I wouldn’t find it offensive
and my GM was in a concentration camp

I’ll give you that one of those figures may have been a German conscript who found the regime abhorrent.

I zoomed in and they're all enthusiastically sieg heiling even in death. Maybe some of them were doing it ironically though

Really? Fgs

@Alexandernevermind “I would perhaps tell the owner I thought it offensive, particularly for the Eastern European members of our community.”

Why are Eastern Europeans (who suffered far more than the British under the Nazi regime, with invasion, occupation, ghettos, Holocaust transports) more likely to find the word “Nazi” for a general German WW2 soldier offensive?

It was a joint effort by the russian winter and the Soviet army.

The rest of the allies contributed too but i think we can agree that the battering they received on the eastern front was the decisive factor.

When did we get to a point in the world when just saying words was so offensive l? Must we pretend Nazis never existed? It’s not pro-Nazi, it’s just referring to figures (presumably, OP still hasn’t given even a crumb of context)

@Alexandernevermind “I would perhaps tell the owner I thought it offensive, particularly for the Eastern European members of our community.”

Are the Eastern European members of your community reliant on you to speak for them or are you just using that as an excuse?

In Europe it's illegal to deal in ANY kind of nazi paraphernalia and has been so since the end of WW2: it's bit of a surprise to come to the UK and see that's it's absolutely fine, yep, fine, what's the problem? Just saying.

Yes, the apostrophe would still be incorrect. It is in your sentence too. A plural does not require an apostrophe at all.

Omg I just understood the sign. FFS this is what a misplaced apostrophe can do to you.

I read it as "please do not touch!" Signed by "the Nazis".

I thought they were referring themselves to nazis, ie fanatical about their figures nor being and touched and ruthless in their punishment of anyone who does.

But actually they are asking you not to touch the Nazis (ie the figures)..is that right? Could you touch the rest of the battlefield then?

I'm offended by how inaccurate their statement is and the terrible grammar. Uggh