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Nazi uniforms are devices that de-individualise us. They de-realise us and de-historicise the past. They wear out our sense of moral agency until we no longer feel as though we’re individually responsible for the things that we all do because it becomes impossible to say who is the singular “I” that is responsible for an action. As I said, if everyone is implicated in some way, no one is guilty in any way.

In 2005, the former Prince Harry was severely criticised for wearing a swastika to a fancy dress party when he was 20-years-old. As it turns out, in 2003, New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet similarly donned a Nazi-themed costume for his twenty-first birthday party. Perrottet said he is “deeply ashamed” of what he did, and that he is sorry for any pain caused particularly to the Australian Jewish community and to Holocaust survivors. One person said: ‘It really was outrageous. There are limits when it comes to this and this really crossed the line.

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It used only to be film archives that stored Nazi regalia permanently on celluloid. Now, the internet never forgets our clothing choices as an externalisation of our values. Which brings us to the politics of dressing up like Hitler in public. The politics of swastikasIn Japan, World War II is not taught in schools as a battle of political ideologies, but as a conventional war. This type of education treats Hitler and the Nazi Party as charismatic and powerful leaders of countries during wartime, instead of war criminals as elsewhere. [ citation needed] Uniforms and other imagery related to Nazi Germany are sold in East and South East Asia, where some consider it fashionable. [ citation needed] Pop groups have dressed in SS-inspired uniforms. It is not about pointing the finger, it is not about blame,” the Duke said. “I will be the first person to say, again, this is about learning.”