Monday, January 01, 2007

Cybernazis from Outer London!

New year and new dangers. I was having a browse around the ol' interweb in search of a picture of the grim reaper or a death's head to use for the template for a tarot card design (for a tattoo concept I'm working on) when I found one that looked a little familiar. So I click on the thing and then realise why it's familiar - it's not a deaths head it's a Totenkopf as in concentration camp guards' collar badges. Oh deary deary me and the bloody things on sale from a UK based seller of nazi and other right-wing memorabilia. Fine, each to their own and all that but please don't try to convince me that (forgive the immenent pun) that your political views are right or the imagery that you have on display is socially acceptable. Of course there is a place for this sort of thing - but it's a museum which puts the stuff in context and explains why the rise of fascism led to the second world war.

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