Danish Scout Camp Features Nazi Game

[Boris Godunov]

Ah, ok then.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Wernazuma III
GP: As usual, you don't hit the nail on the head, but rather you hit your head on the nail.
Isn't it wonderful and easy to try to make Germans shut up because they always feel that guilt from back then? Opposing Sharon's politics has nothing to do with Nazism!

In principle, this is true. But being anti-Israel certain greenlights anti-Semitism.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by GP
Have you noticed all these Germans and Austrians have a skull theme going...

In my case it's been a joke in a multiplayer game. It went along with a declaration of war and was meant as a message to my opponent, not more. I'm sorry if it offended you and hope, you like my new avatar better. I could have explained it to you that day, but like Mazarin, I didn't intend to feed the troll.

But being anti-Israel certain greenlights anti-Semitism.

I fail to see the logic in your statement, would you explain it, Ned? Being against Sharons policy has nothing to do with being anti-Israel or Antisemitic, just like criticizing Bushs foreign policy and being against the war in Iraq doesn't mean to be anti-American or to hate all Americans.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Ned? Put some effort into it, would you? Any less thought and subtlety in the trolls and you'll become Bob Dornan.

[Ming]

LAZ...

[TCO]

I like it when Trappist scolds...

[Provost Harrison]

Those crazy Danes?!?! There always has struck me as something menacing and disturbing about their society

[Panag]

Re: Danish Scout Camp Features Nazi Game

Originally posted by Sirotnikov

Danish Scout Camp Features Nazi Game

By Associated Press
January 23, 2003, 7:54 PM EST


COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- A Danish scout group acknowledged it "may have crossed the line" by organizing a game of tag in which adults pretending to be Nazis chased children dressed as Jews around a phony concentration camp.

The Danish Christian FDF scout group put up swastikas and Nazi-type signs and had the children wear yellow Stars of David as they were chased around the school yard at the Kongeaadal school, 161 miles southwest of Copenhagen.

One sign had the German words "Arbeit macht frei," or "Work will set you free," the infamous inscription over the entrance of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

"I was shocked," Johanna Christiansen, whose two daughters took part, told the Ekstra Bladet newspaper on Thursday. "It's wrong to expose children to this."

Jes Imer, of the local FDF chapter, told the tabloid B.T. that organizers "may have crossed the line this time with a night game where Nazis chase Jews."

"I don't know whether I should apologize," Imer told B.T. of the incident last weekend. "I didn't want the game to hurt anyone."

The group of about 160 scouts, aged 11-14 included a dozen teenagers from the Danish-speaking minority in northern Germany.

Copyright © 2003, The Associated Press

hi ,

it seems to be the general rule in europe , ....

well Aliyah is the best for the ones still there

have a nice day

[Jaakko]

This post edited by Ming...

Now that's stepping over the line Jaakko... one more post like that and you are toast.

I don't care if you were "trying to be funny"...

[Panag]

Originally posted by Tassadar5000
Whats the big deal? Israel does the same thing except on a much grander level...

hi ,

what are you talking about , .......

this is about "DANISH SCOUT CAMP FEATURES NAZI GAME" , .......

have a nice day

[Jaakko]

Sorry Ming, it just makes my blood boil when cases like this are reflected on "the European character". Won't do it again.

[mactbone]

I think the difference between the "black man" game and cowboys and indians was that people wanted to be both comwboys and indians. Personally I never played it, and I don't think many people in America really do - but if you look at shows and movies made from the 1950s on Native Americans were on the whole represented positively which made us respect them. We've also heard in our history classes how they invented guerilla warfare and how we used some of those techniques in the Revolutionary War. So, when we played indians and cowboys (at least this is the impression I get) we're just playing a war game that involves two different sets of people that we never see. I guess you could see it as playing Romans and Barbarians (germanic tribes), or some similar clash of two cultures that fought each other.

[Static Universe]

Interesting that this should happen in Denmark, one of the few countries that didn't cooperate with Hitler's Jewish Solution either overtly or covertly. IIRC, the Jewish population in Denmark had the highest survival rate out of the occupied countries (less than 100 dead, I think), the police and resistence went to great trouble to hide them, and even moved nearly the entire population in fishing boats to safety in Sweden.

[tinyp3nis]

I think the difference between the "black man" game and cowboys and indians was that people wanted to be both comwboys and indians.

Did somebody tell you or did you figure that out all by yourself? I guess I'm really weird enjoying both running from and running after someone as a kid. I'm curious about how you came to this conclusion anyway. I can't remember all the posts but somehow I have a feeling nobody mentioned being black in the game sucks...

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by panag


hi ,

what are you talking about , .......

this is about "DANISH SCOUT CAMP FEATURES NAZI GAME" , .......

I know. I was asking why a Danish scount camp playing Nazis and Jews is such a big deal considering Israel plays a VERY similar game every day.

have a nice day