Quote: Finck @ October 22 2009, 4:18 PM BSTIt is if you're young enough to pull it off.
I say! How rude
I read the news today oh boy! Page 36
Quote: Finck @ October 22 2009, 4:18 PM BSTIt is if you're young enough to pull it off. And you, my dear, are.
If you read of his background it's surprising that he made such a good career in the UK, but someone had to play the nazis I suppose...
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 22 2009, 5:47 PM BST
If you read of his background it's surprising that he made such a good career in the UK, but someone had to play the nazis I suppose...
Actually, I mostly know him from his documentaries, when he was older.
With 'background' do you mean his having been in the Wehrmacht?
Quote: Finck @ October 22 2009, 5:55 PM BSTActually, I mostly know him from his documentaries, when he was older.
With 'background' do you mean his having been in the Wehrmacht?
yes. He was proper Hitler youth material.
I'm not sure whether they'd have killed me or signed me up. The dilema of an aryan Jew.
Quote: Moonstone @ October 22 2009, 6:13 PM BSTI'm not sure whether they'd have killed me or signed me up. The dilema of an aryan Jew.
As a blonde haired blue eyed person who's mother's, mother's mother was jewish I wonder the same.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 22 2009, 6:10 PM BST
Well, he was born in 1928. Not much of an informed choice he could make there.
Quote: Finck @ October 22 2009, 6:15 PM BSTWell, he was born in 1928. Not much of an informed choice he could make there.
No, I suppose not! 
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 22 2009, 6:14 PM BSTAs a blonde haired blue eyed person who's mother's, mother's mother was jewish I wonder the same.
You do realise that makes you one of us? 100%? *embraces Dolly*
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 22 2009, 6:14 PM BSTAs a blonde haired blue eyed person who's mother's, mother's mother was jewish I wonder the same.
Well, the whole ideology wasn't very consistent.
Quote: Finck @ October 22 2009, 6:17 PM BSTWell, the whole ideology wasn't very consistent.
Much like the interesting things the BNP comes up with to determine what constitutes a truly British person. Suddenly it's all about when the island was cut off the continent and stuff like that. To a historian, or in fact a decent human being, BNP ideology is a bit like Merlin, just not as entertaining. Both on the BBC, though.
Quote: Moonstone @ October 22 2009, 6:17 PM BSTYou do realise that makes you one of us? 100%? *embraces Dolly*
Yes, so I believe. After researching my family tree I've discovered I am in fact a genetic mongrel.
Quote: Curt @ October 22 2009, 12:38 AM BSTHe's a regular John Titor.
Awesome!
Quote: Finck @ October 22 2009, 6:21 PM BSTWell, the whole ideology wasn't very consistent.
Hitler had brown eyes for one thing!
Quote: Moonstone @ October 22 2009, 6:17 PM BSTYou do realise that makes you one of us? 100%? *embraces Dolly*
You'll be glad to here that I come from Hanukkah people too, my mother's side of the family were immigrant Lithuanian Jews - possibly the most apathetic of all the Jews. (Family name Melz, which for some reason is mainly considered German-Jewish.) 