Am I overreacting or is that outrageous?

[Terrysnotmine]

In a shop near me

No-one is doing that here, or downplaying their contribution and sacrifice.

Sadly though two very ignorant and aggressive posters seem unable to understand that it was not the soviets alone who fought, or that there was more to the war than the European conflict.

I absolutely wasn't glossing over the Soviet contribution. The tremendous efforts and sacrifices made by the Soviet armed forces and civilians were absolutely crucial in the Allies' victory. Nobody in their right mind would deny that. But that doesn't mean they were solely responsible for the Axis defeat. They weren't.

It's just one Nazi saying thank you. The others were ungrateful.

Sorry, OP YABU. This made me laugh.

The apostrophe.

Agreed absolutely on that point of course.

You're over reacting.

But they were the driving force.

"It was the Western Allies’ extreme good fortune that the Russians, and not themselves, paid almost the entire ‘butcher’s bill’ for [defeating Nazi Germany], accepting 95 per cent of the military casualties of the three major powers of the Grand Alliance," writes Hastings."

writes British historian and journalist Max Hastings in "Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945."

If you knew the shop is well-known foe not being PC, why go in it when you are? Stick to your own kind.

I wish I could see the rear of the displaY. Is it really just a few branches with some saluting soldiers lying around?

Meh, nothing I could get upset about. The figure to the left of the sign looks like a historical model - I'm guessing the little figures are supposed to be Nazis? Maybe they'd had problems with people stealing/breaking them even if they were only touching them, so now there's a "Don't touch the Nazi's" sign, although the apostrophe irks me slightly haha!
The sort of shop which, by your own admission isn't PC, and sells/displays Nazi figures, doesn't seem the type of shop to pussy-foot around the correct name for the models the sign-writer is referring to.

Yes

The Nazi's what?

That should read the rest of the display.

Max Hastings is not a historian afaik. He's a journalist I believe. That may be semantics of course but as a historian I felt I must point that out 😉

You keep quoting from the same source - poor form.
And a right wing journalist who's written a book, not a historian.
And also misinterpreting what he's saying - suffering the most losses doesn't mean they beat the nazis alone.

Ah yes, that'll be the one with the moustache.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hastings

Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings FRSL FRHistS (/ˈheɪstɪŋz/; born 28 December 1945)[1] is a British journalist and military historian,[2] who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard. He is also the author of numerous books, chiefly on war, which have won several major awards.

He has presented historical documentaries for the BBC and is the author of many books, including Bomber Command, which earned the Somerset Maugham Award for non-fiction in 1980. Both Overlord and The Battle for the Falklands won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year prize. He was named Journalist of the Year and Reporter of the Year at the 1982 British Press Awards, and Editor of the Year in 1988. In 2010 he received the Royal United Services Institute's Westminster Medal for his "lifelong contribution to military literature", and the same year the Edgar Wallace Award from the London Press Club.[4]

I'm an idiot. I thought you had a point because I thought it said - "Do not touch - the Nazi's thank you!"

But as it actually says "Do not touch the Nazi's - Thank you!" YABU

He is a historian.

And the Germans suffered three-quarters of their wartime losses fighting the Red Army.

But I bet you find that irrelevant too

www.historyireland.com/stalins-victory-the-soviet-union-and-world-war-ii/

@HuggsBosom “He is a historian.”

In the spirit of this thread, I’d like to introduce a tangent of being offended that you didn’t write “an historian”.

My bad! Although I notice you weren't offended by @BitOutOfPractice saying 'Max Hastings is not a historian afaik.'

Who said it's irrelevant?
You are making stuff up in your world of 1s and 0s.

Why "an historian"? It's not a silent h.

...or is it??

I think it just means they have set the Nazis like that for dramatic affect and don't want anyone 'tidying' or setting them back up again.

Either that or there are some very disturbing people with extreme right wing leanings openly running shops in your village.

**@Testina · Today 13:23

@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?**

FFS, stop trying to be offended. I'll play along. Sooo, it isn't the word Nazi, it the joke that MAY cause upset is what I meant, as you well know. And to answer your other question to me no, of course I don't speak for the Eastern European community, I'm dont have a saviour complex, simply saying persecuted communities from these countries might be upset. Actually people from all parts of Europe might be upset, but we have a particularly large EE community in our town (compared to other community groups, before you jump on me for that too. For the record no, I would not have complained, I would have complained before I posted the photo on SM though.