Should Prince Harry apologise?

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or not? Discuss

just saw a clip on the news of the Duchess of York stating 'he (H I'm assuming) is a great young man and he has apologised'. Well imho he's a great dunce!

Oh sometimes I really loath the RF.

it's just the sort of thing fergie would've done herself in her younger days

No he shouldn't. He is a young man. World War 2 is just a piece of history for him.

It was a dreadful thing that happened but we are British and we find humour from evil. Thats our job.

No he should not. It's not as if he's taken to wearing a Nazi uniform every day, or taken up their manifesto and views. As far as I am aware this is still a free country where you can make a joke about Nazis. Let's face it the BBC have done it time and time again, whole sitcoms would not exist without the joke!

I disagree. The young man who is third in line to the throne wearing a nazi uniform as a "joke" just days short of the anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz is utterly insensitive and offensive. He's not in a sitcom ffs, he's a royal and therefore, supposedly, a figurehead. Airhead more like.

On the one hand the press hound them with cries of "you must be normal, you are not special" etc. etc. On the other hand, if they put one foot out of line (and in this case it was a PRIAVTE party) he gets it in the neck from every corner.

I'm sure that had he really considered his choice of outfit even he would have agreed that it was not sensible. But what's done is done and I don't think he intended it as a direct insult to the memory of people who suffered so horribly at the hands of the Nazis 60 years ago.

How many other people might have gone to parties over the same w/e wearing similar garb. and have not been slated in the press?

having a joke on fawlty towers about 'the germans' and wearing a nazi uniform is a bit different i think.

IMO as a member of the royal family he has a responsibility to the public to act appropriately. But he has apologised, so I think everyone should just forget it now and move on!

the royal family have a responsibility to act appropriately in public. dont feel sorry for them, lots of 'civilians' do too, doctors, nurses, policemen, soldiers. although they dont always, they just dont get in the papers. if a member of the armed forces wore a nazi uniform to a fancy dress party, they would get the sack, surely?

has he apologized? or did some pr bloke not just issue a statement?

dunno, it was probably just a PR announcement actually

he really is a bit of a twat isn't he

i bet his brother wouldnt do something like this.

can you imagine the text message

'Harry you TWAT! and i thought you had stopped smoking ffs'

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Comedy that lampoons the Nazis and makes them appear ridiculous and stupid is very different from from wearing the - rather flattering - costume at a party full of racists (other guests apparently thought it was funny to wear black-face makeup - oh, ha bloody ha). I imagine Harry thought he looked pretty sexy in it. The uniform was Rommell's Afrika Corps, I have read, hence the 'suitablity' for the Colonial (FFS) theme. So it looks as if quite a lot of thought went into it. Very shocked that you can just hire Nazi uniforms for fun, actually. I don't know how many other people wear this kind of thing for fun. IMO they all deserve condemnation. It's repulsive.
As for it all being just ancient history, I don't know if anyone read the testimonies of concentration camp survivors in yesterday's Guardian? About the 94 year old Jewish man who only recently got a letter saying he would have 'made a good lampshade"? Or is that just a jolly jape too? Sorry, I clearly have a sense of humour failure over this. I think he's unspeakable.

God yes, I was appalled to read about the harrassment of that man in the guardian

It was a hired costume apparently.
It's not just the costume that's important here - it is the fact that the, and a future senior member of our armed forces, thinks it is OK to wear a Nazi uniform 'for fun'.

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What did she say what did she say?

no, what did she say?

aloha, I am 100% behind you on this one. It gets worse and worse - I had no idea about the blackface/'natives' side of it - these people seem to live in a different universe. He needs to face up to the reality behind what he did. It has been suggested that he should visit Auschwitz - a good idea IMO but apparently it will not be happening because 'it would turn into a media circus'. Well, so what? His eyes need opening somehow. In fact the whole bloody lot who dreamed up that unbelievable theme for a party and went along with it should be shipped out there to sober up.

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I find it incredible to think that so many people don't know what Auschwitz is! FFS!