Posted by axxxr
I was quite shocked to find out about these handpainted Nazi toy soldiers on display in the Apple Store in Korea's biggest shopping centre, in Seoul. It's not an official Apple Store, but it's certainly Apple's representative in Korea; everyone who shops for Apple considers that the place.
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Posted by maggflodd
Yeah, well,
as an "ex-German" I'm disgusted and amazed... Strange, in many German cities that place would be
1. firebombed, and then
2. the soot-covered management would be prosecuted (it's illegal in G to display swastika etc... )
On a more personal level I have to admit I'm equally appalled by any display of soldier-ism...The british (?) "Dambusters" is still one of the topranked war movies of all times... Dam-busting is considered a war crime in international law/geneva/UN etc...
G.I.-Joe figures instead... - hmmm... Many folks still cannot say "native american" without a smirk... Somehow that genocide wasn't so bad (probably, we'd missed out on oh sooo many "great" western movies... John wayne (who of course never "served" ...)...; Abu Ghraib has amazingly fast become just another theme for stand-up-"comedians". And did you see that appaling "Guantanamo-Sketch" at Amnesty Int'l(!!!)'s secret policeman ball last year... Comparatively, that window display is almost a quaintly existantialist art installation... By the way, no need to fly to Asia... Right here in Ireland it's quite normal to see books and magazines showing the swastika on the cover...
F*ck'em'all
- P.S. In here someone's just posted as
"natzE" ... try pronouncing "natzE"... Quite witty, right?
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... What you need is what they're sellin' - make you think that buying is rebellin'... thin line between entertainment and war... ratm
[ This Message was edited by: maggflodd on 2007-01-28 18:43 ]
Posted by axxxr
I'm still not sure what this apple store was trying to do here by displaying these?
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Posted by Gigs
Um it's an Apple authorized reseller, it could be a sex store and still sell apples.. Really the apple side has nothing to do with this. But +1 for sensationalism in the media
As for the figures, meh, it's history, maybe the figures are used in a warhammer like tabletop battle game where people re-enact famous battles etc.
Not really a big deal unless this was "Nazi recruitment store also sells iPods!" or something of a similar vein.
Posted by amnesia
I will always look at the swastika symbol as a symbol of peace and not for it's relation to Nazis.
Anyway, somehow I feel there is something missing from the big picture. Media at its best I say.
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Posted by Xugaa
I think they're pretty cool actually, what they have to do with Apple I don't know, but the models themselves are nicely detailed.