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“An Ohio congressional candidate is under fire after a magazine unearthed a photo showing him dressed in a Waffen-SS uniform as part of a Nazi re-enactment group. […] But Iott, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, defended himself in a statement Saturday after Kaptur's campaign and other groups condemned him. Iott said that as a student of history he has participated in numerous military re-enactments since he was in college and meant no offense by them. […] According to the Wiking website, the organization is devoted to "presenting the history" of the Eastern Front division which fought the Russians, "never against the Americans".” [emphasis added]
— Published October 10, 2010 | FoxNews.com
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, we note the following:
After the war at the Nuremberg Trials, the Waffen-SS was condemned as a criminal organization due to its essential connection to the Nazi Party and its involvement in war crimes.
Are we to assume that Iott participated in so many reenactments that he had to resort to joining an organization that commemorates the World War II exploits of the armed wing of the Nazi Party? Because there were no reenactments to be found that commemorated the WWII exploits of American Armed Forces? British? Canadian? Even Russian (recall that the Red Army was one of our Allies against Nazi Germany)?
Is this guy insane? Never mind answering the latter. I know the answer. Just vote for any old yellow dog running against him.
There are idiots. And then there are f*cking idiots. It's all relative.
Post 1,446 Only a tad Nazi-ish?
A "student of history"?
ReplyDeleteGeez, I think my late father could have filled him in on some of the finer points of that history. He wasn't a historian, but he actually met some of those German lads Mr Iott sought to emulate. In fact, Dad brought home a couple of mementos from those encounters that couldn't be removed surgically. Ol' Dad had some real clear opinions about those boys. Real clear.