{"id":711,"date":"2005-01-14T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T07:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/2005\/01\/swastika-am-prinzenarm.htm"},"modified":"2005-01-14T08:57:47","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T07:57:47","slug":"swastika-am-prinzenarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/2005\/01\/swastika-am-prinzenarm.htm","title":{"rendered":"Swastika am Prinzenarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201eDoes the swastika offend you?\u201d Gefragt hat der <i><a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/this_britain\/story.jsp?story=600700\" target=_new>Independent<\/a><\/i> Harry Marrington, 80, Navy Gunner und Jim Ratcliffe, 82, Veteran of D-Day Landings.<\/p>\n<p>Verletzt f\u00fchlt sich Harry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s wrong with the boy. At 20, he should have grown out of that. We were already fighting a war at the age of 17 and 18. We were men. We fought a war to try to stop this business. I was born into the Army and have known nothing else but regimental discipline. In my day, we would get into trouble for simply climbing up an apple tree. And the family would have to take the blame too. Nowadays, when you tell youngsters off they don&#8217;t seem to care less.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Ich kann richtig h\u00f6ren, in welchem Tonfall er das sagt. Die Jugend heutzutage!)<\/p>\n<p>Nicht verletzt ist Jim:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just thought, &#8220;You silly lad&#8221;. It is a storm in a teacup. He cannot say sorry any more. What more do they want him to do? Grovel? It was in bad taste, but all this was 60 years ago. I think we should all move on.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a lot of the younger generation that wouldn&#8217;t know what a swastika is. It is similar to how I felt about the events of the Boer War when I was young, which was nothing much whatsoever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Superschlau! Wir reden nicht mehr \u00fcber die Gr\u00e4uel des Zweiten Weltkriegs, wenn Ihr nicht mehr \u00fcber unsere Gemetzel in S\u00fcdafrika redet. Deal?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201eDoes the swastika offend you?\u201d Gefragt hat der Independent Harry Marrington, 80, Navy Gunner und Jim Ratcliffe, 82, Veteran of D-Day Landings. Verletzt f\u00fchlt sich Harry: I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s wrong with the boy. At 20, he should have grown out of that. We were already fighting a war at the age of 17 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}