England Team Gives Nazi Salute

[Lab 10,979]

Anyway, pales in comparison with what your lot tried doing Undi.. (Nationalists, not the Scots in general..)

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1329626/Scots-tried-to-set-up-Nazi-alliance.html

 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/may/09/highereducation.humanities

Since when do you stick up for the English...??

[Malt 379]

 

 

in 1938 they wouldnt have known what was known in 1946

i agree that in 1938 they would not have known what was to come but only 20 years prior to this they where mustard gassing are troops in the trenches and all those footballers would have lost fathers or uncles and family in that war.so in that respect ,it does seem odd to be giving a nazi salute

They weren't the only ones to use gas, phosgene was responsible for 85% of all chemical weapon deaths in WW1 and it was invented by us.

[jacknife 2,005]

 

 

in 1938 they wouldnt have known what was known in 1946

i agree that in 1938 they would not have known what was to come but only 20 years prior to this they where mustard gassing are troops in the trenches and all those footballers would have lost fathers or uncles and family in that war.so in that respect ,it does seem odd to be giving a nazi salute

But no one knows if they did it voluntarily

 

They were more than likely told to do it

[greg64 3,076]

i,m not saying they were the only ones using gas,what i am saying is that it was only 20 years prior that we were at war with germany and every familly would have been touched by that war in some way,and they should not have been doing a nazi salute

[greg64 3,076]

 

 

in 1938 they wouldnt have known what was known in 1946

i agree that in 1938 they would not have known what was to come but only 20 years prior to this they where mustard gassing are troops in the trenches and all those footballers would have lost fathers or uncles and family in that war.so in that respect ,it does seem odd to be giving a nazi salute

But no one knows if they did it voluntarily

 

They were more than likely told to do it

 

i,m sure they were,but that in itself is a sad state of affairs after all that died in that war

[Malt 379]

i,m not saying they were the only ones using gas,what i am saying is that it was only 20 years prior that we were at war with germany and every familly would have been touched by that war in some way,and they should not have been doing a nazi salute

They weren't fighting the Nazis in WW1.. Maybe they were simply playing along to help prevent a repeat of the horrors of the great war? You are right to say things would still have been very fresh in the mind, but do you you not think reconciliation and mutual respect were more important when millions of lives are hanging in the balance? I'd have thought it even more important to be on good terms after so much devastation a few decades prior.

[johnny boy68 11,726]

i,m not saying they were the only ones using gas,what i am saying is that it was only 20 years prior that we were at war with germany and every familly would have been touched by that war in some way,and they should not have been doing a nazi salute

They didn't go to war 20 years earlier with the Nazi party, the nazi party wasn't established until 1920. I think they were founded to oppose communism which at the time was a major problem. I think the nazi party started out as a completely different entity to what it finally became.

 

Edit....posted same time as Mal.

[greg64 3,076]

 

i,m not saying they were the only ones using gas,what i am saying is that it was only 20 years prior that we were at war with germany and every familly would have been touched by that war in some way,and they should not have been doing a nazi salute

They weren't fighting the Nazis in WW1.. Maybe they were simply playing along to help prevent a repeat of the horrors of the great war? You are right to say things would still have been very fresh in the mind, but do you you not think reconciliation and mutual respect were more important when millions of lives are hanging in the balance?

 

i agree with you totally its a shame that the respct and reconcilation did,nt last that long

[truescot 234]

Means nothing other than to undi lol

 

FFs hitler was man of the year in time magazine

And even Churchill said "if Britain faced the trials like Germany , May god speed us a man like adolf hitler"..

 

Aye undi this was a pretty weak attempt even by your standards lol

 

Let's look @the nationalists loyalty eh.

There wee bombing campaign few years back,letter bombs I believe it was. Sent one to lady Diana FFs.

[greg64 3,076]

think yous were right an friendly with the germans at that time

think your right there,and a few years later yous were even more freindlyer with them lol

[Malt 379]

 

think yous were right an friendly with the germans at that time

 

think your right there,and a few years later yous were even more freindlyer with them lol

They're owned by them now..

[BGD 6,437]

Disgusting they should all be shot

 

 

Feck sake it's pretty standard practice to show respect while the host nations anthemn plays isn't it? It's not like we were at war with them at the time, unbunch your knickers girls it really is a total nonstory.

Edited July 20, 2015 by BGD

[greg64 3,076]

 

 

think yous were right an friendly with the germans at that time

think your right there,and a few years later yous were even more freindlyer with them lol

 

might been a few trying to get friendly with them there was as many irish died fighting them as there were English

 

and i salute those brave men

[greg64 3,076]

Disgusting they should all be shot

 

 

Feck sake it's pretty standard practice to show respect while the host nations anthemn plays isn't it? It's not like we were at war with them at the time, unbunch your knickers girls it really is a total nonstory.

unless your james mcClean

[undisputed 1,664]

 

 

 

in 1938 they wouldnt have known what was known in 1946

Exactly, hindsight is a wonderful thing..

The Politicians were well aware, apparently the team were ordered to do it

What were they aware of?

 

Of what the Nazi's were about