Nazi style swastika items showing up more for sale in Pattaya

[amvet]

1 hour ago, blubb said:

and today after an additional 20 years he celebrate his 125th Birthday :)

Born in 1944 only makes him 74. 

[talahtnut]

15 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

The real history? What do you mean by that?

As we know, history is written by the victors.

I am interested in the other sides history.

As you might expect, there is always a difference.

[amvet]

Just now, talahtnut said:

As we know, history is written by the victors.

I am interested in the other sides history.

As you might expect, there is always a difference.

We don't know any such thing.  History is history and after 70 years a lot of classified material is unclassified and we know more about what happened than they did in 1945.

[Jingthing]

Just now, talahtnut said:

As we know, history is written by the victors.

I am interested in the other sides history.

As you might expect, there is always a difference.

Yeah, sure thing, dude.

I seriously doubt very many of the people buying these cheap Nazi/Hitler merch items are historical scholars.

Who do you think you're fooling with your CODE?

Not me. 

[JAG]

 

This chap was often seen riding his bike around Chiang Rai. The other side of his helmet has the SS runes, and the front a swastika.

 

I snapped this picture at some lights. He got quite excited and swore at me in German.

 

I haven't seen him for a while - I do hope he hasn't fallen off his bike and hurt himself...

[JAG]

8 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Yeah, sure thing, dude.

I seriously doubt very many of the people buying these cheap Nazi/Hitler merch items are historical scholars.

Who do you think you're fooling with your CODE?

Not me. 

They lost, deserved to lose, and deserved the way they were treated after they lost.

 

There are still a few sad sacks who try to keep the memory of what was crushed alive, by dressing up like this.

 

I suspect most of them have very small hands...

[talahtnut]

15 hours ago, amvet said:

We don't know any such thing.  History is history and after 70 years a lot of classified material is unclassified and we know more about what happened than they did in 1945.

So sorry I didn't know you were familiar with all the declassified documents, both German and English..You must agree they are interesting.

[amvet]

1 minute ago, talahtnut said:

So sorry I didn't know you were familiar with all the declassified documents, both German and English..You must agree they are interesting.

It is not difficult to find the information if one wants facts and does not want to rewrite history. 

[talahtnut]

15 hours ago, JAG said:

 

This chap was often seen riding his bike around Chiang Rai. The other side of his helmet has the SS runes, and the front a swastika.

 

I snapped this picture at some lights. He got quite excited and swore at me in German.

 

I haven't seen him for a while - I do hope he hasn't fallen off his bike and hurt himself...

Might have been shot down or captured.

[Bluespunk]

16 minutes ago, talahtnut said:

As we know, history is written by the victors.

I am interested in the other sides history.

As you might expect, there is always a difference.

Having studied history from all sides, there is no doubt surrounding the accuracy of the reporting of the appalling atrocities and genocide carried out by the nazis.

 

None at all.

[lamyai3]

The greatest threat to Siam in the decades immediately preceding WW2 was colonisation. The British and the French had drawn up agreements on how the territory would be annexed, but once Hitler invaded Poland the whole thing was off the table. Hitler would never have been perceived here in the same way as in the West.

 

Of course, this has little to do with the stuff on sale - world history doesn't feature highly in the school system here and I imagine most locals know barely anything about him at all. 

[Jingthing]

21 minutes ago, lamyai3 said:

The greatest threat to Siam in the decades immediately preceding WW2 was colonisation. The British and the French had drawn up agreements on how the territory would be annexed, but once Hitler invaded Poland the whole thing was off the table. Hitler would never have been perceived here in the same way as in the West.

 

Of course, this has little to do with the stuff on sale - world history doesn't feature highly in the school system here and I imagine most locals know barely anything about him at all. 

Yes, Thailand experienced World War 2 in their own particular way. That is true. But I don't think the sellers of Nazi merch in Pattaya are ideologically motivated, in any way. It's baht based. On the other hand, if you come across a copy painting shop here owned by an old Austrian peddling heroic Hitler poses, well, that would be different.

[talahtnut]

16 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Yeah, sure thing, dude.

I seriously doubt very many of the people buying these cheap Nazi/Hitler merch items are historical scholars.

Who do you think you're fooling with your CODE?

Not me. 

What are you on about, CODE, can't I seek the truth of historical events?

[Jingthing]

33 minutes ago, talahtnut said:

What are you on about, CODE, can't I seek the truth of historical events?

By rationalizing people buying cheap Nazi merch as being historical scholars?

Again, you're not fooling anyone. 

[Jingthing]

The intention of this thread is to talk about the topic of Nazi/Hitler merch openly for sale in 2018 Pattaya.

It's scope does NOT include the history of World War 2. 

 

Keeping on the theme, I'm sure I'm not the only one that has seen these Nazi merch displays for SALE. But as far as observing people BUYING it, I haven't seen that because it's not like I'm going to stand around there and watch. So any people that have seen people buying this stuff? If so, can you identify their nationalities? 

 

Or perhaps you bought some yourself. Hmm?

[Briggsy]

 

The vendor knows that the only power structures that the Thai population and the Thai authorities are remotely interested in are local ones. Note how you never see T-shirts on sale of local political heroes. Perhaps the Lenins and Hitlers actually represent figures from Thai politics like some kind of Thai dog whistle.

 

So, in summary, the Thai vendors don't care and don't understand what they are selling. They just want to make a buck or a baht.

[JAG]

 

This (above) is why this (below)

should be ridiculed, shamed, and made to feel like the filth which he obviously admires.

 

No excuses, no "its just a fashion statement", no claims that "history is written by the winners....

[Jingthing]

24 minutes ago, JAG said:

 

This (above) is why this (below)

should be ridiculed, shamed, and made to feel like the filth which he obviously admires.

 

No excuses, no "its just a fashion statement", no claims that "history is written by the winners....

I'm not so sure that it isn't sometimes a fashion statement. An unfortunate one, but it seems to me it depends on what the person showing it is thinking in wearing it. When I used to see a lot of Thai youths wearing over the top stylized Nazi shirts, I just didn't get the vibe that they were relating it to what Nazis actually are. There's probably an element of rebellion in it but that's not the same thing as actually identifying with or as Nazis. On the other hand in the west and with westerners, they know perfectly well what they are saying with such displays. 

[champers]

I have never personally seen Westerners wearing items celebrating Naziism in Pattaya, but I well believe they are around.

I have always thought it laughably ironic that their contribution to perpetuating the master race is producing progeny with a Thai.

[pegman]

5 hours ago, lonewolf99 said:

Hugo Boss...........................

 

Was a Nazi and designed and manufactured the  Nazi Uniform.

The SS black uniform and Wermacht and Wafen SS uniforms before branching out to men suits and accessories....

 

So before you post on here and decry the swastika  take a look in your wardrobe or aftershave label !!

 

I own nothing of Hugo Boss label and have never bought any of it.

Checked, only have Hugo Bass.

[tifino]

the only way they can sell (and openly wear) red t-shirts,

is if they put an offensive symbol on it... as a distraction (or a loophole)

 

 

someone was a genius, in all this!

 

[Jingthing]

1 minute ago, tifino said:

the only way they can sell (and openly wear) red t-shirts,

is if they put an offensive symbol on it... as a distraction (or a loophole)

 

 

someone was a genius, in all this!

 

That's an interesting theory. Hmm. 

[Blackheart1916]

14 hours ago, Pattaya46 said:

Do you remember this huge board ...

* "Hitler is not dead!"

 

posted on Sukhumvit road at the entrance of Pattaya... ?

 

Hitler or Nazi cross or just historical things.

Most people here don't know and don't care what they were.

And wasn't there a Hitler look alike statue out the front of a bangkok chicken shop a couple of years ago?

[Rimmer]

Some more off topic baiting and bickering posts removed

[johnnyonesock]

On 1/17/2018 at 11:10 PM, tifino said:

 

... about all that the later generations know about that war; was that they were on the same side as the Nazis, and the Rising Sun...

 

Pretty much everything else that happened during that era, has been silenced from their history 

 

With all the currently suppressed dissent, and the want for 'revolution' - what better way than to display in the faces of the current administration;

the symbol flown in all that 'glory' by utterly almost millions, that happened at the Reichstag plaza for example.

 

... just another symbol for wilfull-in-your-face-protest, and anarchy

we have all been programmed to react with revulsion to these symbols by the media and education system in the West and the reason for that is not really about what may or may not have happened during WW2 but rather that the philosophy behind National Socialism (Nazi) is a polar opposite to the political indoctrination being touted today...nobody says anything about the hammer and sickle  symbol of the Soviet Union communist system which killed tens of millions in Russia and world wide from 1917- 1990

[blubb]

19 hours ago, lonewolf99 said:

Hugo Boss...........................

 

Was a Nazi and designed and manufactured the  Nazi Uniform.

The SS black uniform and Wermacht and Wafen SS uniforms before branching out to men suits and accessories....

 

So before you post on here and decry the swastika  take a look in your wardrobe or aftershave label !!

 

I own nothing of Hugo Boss label and have never bought any of it.

 

my next 2 shirts will be Boss shirts .... 

[Jingthing]

Don't see any problem with that. Jews often love German cars including previously Nazi VW. Fanta soda was originally a Nazi drink. It's not good for you though.

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[Jingthing]

And wasn't there a Hitler look alike statue out the front of a bangkok chicken shop a couple of years ago?

Yeah but that was more about capitalizing on the Thai Hitler Nazi fashion trend. Not really directed at foreigners. These displays I'm seeing more often in Pattaya are.

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[thaibeachlovers]

Here we go again.

This topic has been resurrected several times and being on TVF isn't going to change anything.

Plenty of bike gangsters wearing German WW2 helmet reproductions in my country and we fought Hitler. I believe American bike gangsters also like wearing them.

 

Let's not forget a certain popular prince wearing a Nazi uniform to a party or something, not too many years ago .

[balo]

Same in Naklua , they sell it openly . When you know all the older Germans living in this area you might wonder , I don't think they sell many nazi scarfs per day.