# So a friend of my gf thinks I'm a Nazi **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 27, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235 "2016-11-27T22:51:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235/41 "2016-11-28T20:13:04Z")
You should add a copy of Dick Gregory’s autobiography to the pile. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235/42 "2016-11-28T20:22:14Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > C. But just to be on the safe side, I’d shave off the Hitler mustache. How many times do I have to tell you _it’s a Chaplin mustache!_ Half of my Facebook friends probably think I’m a Nazi. We had a little gathering for my Army retirement after business hours in my units “Heritage Room.” It has various pictures and artifacts from the unit’s history. The unit has a pretty rich lineage to include parts of it being heavily involved in the liberation of both France and Italy. One of the artifacts is a medium sized Nazi flag that was taken off some dead Nazis. It is mounted on the wall along with a picture of the guy taking it from said Nazis. There were some raised eyebrows when I posted pictures with the flag in the background despite the fact that I preemptively explained what it meant. How much more anti-Nazi can you get than killing Nazis and taking their shit? My father had an early copy of Shirer’s book. I don’t think it was first edition but probably damn close. Fantastic book and it’s big enough that you could also use it as boat anchor. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235/43 "2016-11-28T20:34:59Z")
> [@MN\_Maenad](#): > > Ignore her, she’s an idiot. However, if she mentions something again to your gf, there’s a simple quote your gf could use that works wonders as a response: “Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” Just make sure she doesn’t click her heels together sharply while saying that in a German accent. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235/44 "2016-11-28T21:04:52Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Grow a little moustache. Start speaking in the stentorian tones of Adolf Hitler. Drive a German-made car. Lean into it. > > Then, one day, when you’re done with the present books, shelve them, sell the car, shave the moustache, return to your normal speaking manner, and say, “Oh, no, what was I doing!?” > > [Do not actually take this advice.] Every once and awhile I used to see a guy that went out of his way to look like Hitler. I always wondered if he was insane. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235/45 "2016-11-28T21:22:21Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Every once and awhile I used to see a guy that went out of his way to look like Hitler. I always wondered if he was insane. I mentioned this in the thread that was active when his story was active, I used to live near [this guy.](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/new-jersey-nazi-dad-star-doc-meet-hitlers-article-1.2589584) When I saw him at my kid’s doctors office it was before he went the Full Adolf. He dressed like a Brown Shirt but with no explicit Nazi regalia. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235/46 "2016-11-28T22:17:56Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I mentioned this in the thread that was active when his story was active, I used to live near [this guy.](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/new-jersey-nazi-dad-star-doc-meet-hitlers-article-1.2589584) When I saw him at my kid’s doctors office it was before he went the Full Adolf. He dressed like a Brown Shirt but with no explicit Nazi regalia. If you zoom in on the lower photo, among his tattoos are “Hail Hitler” and “Kill Judes”. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235/47 "2016-11-28T22:19:55Z")
> [@Asympotically\_fat](#): > > I don’t think you’re a Nazi, but you might want to fill in an on-line questionnaire to be sure. “Ten signs YOU might be a Nazi (number 6 will surprise you!).” ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235/48 "2016-11-29T01:46:03Z")
> [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#): > > I was “caught” with a volume of Time Magazine’s World War II history set, in my backpack in high school. This particular volume had a large swastika on the cover. Apparently being in possession of something with a swastika on it made me a Nazi. . . . Some years ago – in the 1980s – a U.S. serviceman was trying to board a military airlift flight. He had a copy of [Strategy and Tactics magazine – a wargaming magazine – with this on the cover](http://imgur.com/yS9RJZs). They wouldn’t let him board, because of the “terrorist propaganda.” ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235/49 "2016-11-29T01:50:42Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I just thought to add, IF your girlfriend seems to be questioning your tendency to read about Nazis, read a fascinating book called _Faith and Fratricide: the theological roots of anti-semitism_ by Rosemary Ruether, a well-known Catholic theologian, and leave it around prominently when you do. Also, get the DVD of _The Nasty Girl_, about a young German girl’s school project “My Town during WWII,” and how what she learned got her death threats, and her family harassed. If you are interested in WWII, you will like it, and if your girlfriend watches it with you, it will definitely convince her you are not a Nazi. But what if her friend sees the DVD and thinks the OP is into porno? ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235/50 "2016-11-29T01:56:03Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > How many times do I have to tell you _it’s a Chaplin mustache!_ > Half of my Facebook friends probably think I’m a Nazi. We had a little gathering for my Army retirement after business hours in my units “Heritage Room.” It has various pictures and artifacts from the unit’s history. The unit has a pretty rich lineage to include parts of it being heavily involved in the liberation of both France and Italy. One of the artifacts is a medium sized Nazi flag that was taken off some dead Nazis. It is mounted on the wall along with a picture of the guy taking it from said Nazis. There were some raised eyebrows when I posted pictures with the flag in the background despite the fact that I preemptively explained what it meant. How much more anti-Nazi can you get than killing Nazis and taking their shit? > > My father had an early copy of Shirer’s book. I don’t think it was first edition but probably damn close. Fantastic book and it’s big enough that you could also use it as boat anchor. We have a picture of one of my great aunts very prominent in our formal room. It was taken right after World War II and she’s posing with a her sniper rifle and a handful of Iron Crosses along with helmets and other insignia on the ground around her. Every now and then some moron asks why she was posing with all that Nazi stuff since the Nazi’s tried to genocide the Roma. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235/51 "2016-11-29T19:35:00Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Some years ago – in the 1980s – a U.S. serviceman was trying to board a military airlift flight. He had a copy of [Strategy and Tactics magazine – a wargaming magazine – with this on the cover](http://imgur.com/yS9RJZs). They wouldn’t let him board, because of the “terrorist propaganda.” Gaming paraphernalia among mundanes is often a source of [grievous and epic stupids.](http://www.sjgames.com/SS/) > [@](#): > > On the morning of March 1 [1990], without warning, a force of armed Secret Service agents – accompanied by Austin police and at least one civilian “expert” from the phone company – occupied the offices of Steve Jackson Games and began to search for computer equipment. The home of Loyd Blankenship, the writer of [GURPS Cyberpunk](http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/cyberpunk/), was also raided… > > In the course of [a later] visit, it became clear that the investigating agents considered\*\* GURPS Cyberpunk to be “a handbook for computer crime.”\*\* They seemed to make no distinction between a discussion of futuristic credit fraud, using equipment that doesn’t exist, and modern real-life credit card abuse. A repeated comment by the agents was “This is real.” ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235/52 "2016-11-29T20:48:15Z")
I read quite a bit about depression-era crime. Should I be worried that my friends will think I’m interested in becoming another Dillinger? OTOH, ZonexandScout finds the whole situation a bit sad. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235/53 "2016-11-29T20:50:19Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > We have a picture of one of my great aunts very prominent in our formal room. It was taken right after World War II and she’s posing with a her sniper rifle and a handful of Iron Crosses along with helmets and other insignia on the ground around her. Every now and then some moron asks why she was posing with all that Nazi stuff since the Nazi’s tried to genocide the Roma. My best friend in high school dated a girl whose mother kept a large self-portrait of herself on the living room wall… in Nazi Youth regalia, swastika tie pin prominent. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235/54 "2016-11-29T20:56:23Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > If you zoom in on the lower photo, among his tattoos are “Hail Hitler” and “Kill Judes”. One thing is for sure - he isn’t a _spelling_ Nazi. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-friend-of-my-gf-thinks-im-a-nazi/773235.md?page=2)