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Nazi style helmets conquer Europe
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Published: 24.02.06, 20:54
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1. Holy shit WHY!?
Chris ,   Toronto   (02.24.06)
Are they going to march to the games in unison to support their teams as well?
2. Tactless
Digital Heretic   (02.24.06)
*sigh* But hey, according to the Muslims, the Jews shold be able to riot and burn down the Dutch embassy.
3. Is It Time to Riot?
Joe ,   USA   (02.24.06)
burn down embassies, kill people, destroy property? How dare the Dutch make plastic orange war helmets for soccer games! The maker of these masks should be beheaded at least.
4. Back to offending Jews
Yehuda ,   Seattle   (02.24.06)
Well, after the cartoon saga the nazi euros are too afraid to offend Muslims, so they're back to us. It always starts as a joke. I guess they've learned that when they offend us we'll do nothing. I sometimes think maybe the Muslims didn't overreact. Perhaps we need to learn a thing or two from them?
5. we are being played........
jf ,   nashville   (02.24.06)
6. LOLOL> those are HILARIOUS
(02.24.06)
you jews should get over the past- its getting frickin annoying- THESE ARE A JOKE- meant in good spirit- LAUGHTER IS HEALING.
7. is this freedom of speech?????
john   (02.24.06)
8. Relax people - its just a helmet
andrew ,   maimi, fl   (02.24.06)
look gang, at the end of the day - the german period of "suffering" for world war 2 is over - it has been since the wall fell down. these are their style - always have been and always will be if you are offended - than too bad - you just might live in the wrong country
9. Orange helmets
Kyle ,   Southpark, CO, USA   (02.24.06)
If the Jews at Amona had been wearing them, there would have been a lot fewer busted heads.
10. lol lol lol lol
(02.24.06)
11. Fool!
The White Shadow   (02.24.06)
Approximately six million Jews murdered is not easily forgotten...or forgiven. The Dutch should consider themselves VERY fortunate that Jews do not react like Muslims do. Nevertheless, this offense must not be dismissed. A boycott of the game should be considered.
12. To #6
Josh ,   Jerusalem   (02.24.06)
Us Jews will never forget the past. If other people's thoughts and feelings annoy you, go burn down some embassy or something. The Holocaust was and will never be a joke. History is the greatest crystal ball.
13. I have no problem with the helmets, but I didn't like the
(02.24.06)
manafucture's response in the hebrew report. Saying, "it's time to forget the past and look towards the future" is not acceptable. We can't forget the past.
14. Response to #13
Joshua ,   New York   (02.24.06)
"it's time to forget the past and look towards the future" I agree with your sentiments. After being betrayed by their neighbours, 100,000 Jews were rounded up on Dutch orders by Dutch policemen and taken to a Dutch-run concentration camp before being taken on a Dutch train to Auschwitz. At war's end the few survivors who returned were treated like vermin by the gentiles of Holland. So it's very easy for him to say that "we" should forget, but he'd take a different view of things if Dutch gentiles had been murdered and not Dutch Jews.
15. what next?
jason white ,   afula,israel   (02.24.06)
Isn't soccer that game that people play and animals come to watch? I read that in world war two,there were more dutch in the dutch nazi party than were in the underground. May they go through all the tragedies we went through over the last two thousand years.
16. ashamed
vincent meijer ,   The Haque   (02.24.06)
I am Dutch and feel ashamed. This is holland at it's worst. Rude, harsh, untactfull, noisy, dumm, ignorant, naive, stiff, hard,always looking to make money, going with the flow whatever it me be coming from, and so on
17. Re: Ashamed
Joshua ,   New York   (02.24.06)
Thanks very much for that , Vincent. Not that you need to feel ashamed, but it does takes a very big man to say the things you have all the same.
18. Will the German Helmets have
richard Hitchings ,   methil   (02.24.06)
the SS Flashes on the side...lol
19. Guy in the pic not much of a storm trooper
(02.25.06)
hes even using the wrong hand to salute javol mein kapitan, my ozer hand is used for holding ze ball, or my balls
20. andrew , maimi, fl : You are again the FOOL
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (02.25.06)
21. Re post 2
???   (02.25.06)
I agree...it is tactless. "But hey, according to the Muslims, the Jews should be able to riot and burn down the Dutch embassy." Jews don't do things like that.
22. Yehuda
???   (02.25.06)
"I sometimes think maybe muslims don't overreact. Perhaps we need to learn a thing or two from them?" Actually they could stand a few lessons from the Jews.
23. The White Shadow
Michelle   (02.25.06)
The Jews should not boycott the game. I hope they wear these helmets in the spirit they were meant to be and show the muslims that they too can laugh at themselves.
24. IT IS ABOUT THE GERMANS - NOT JEWS
Dutch ,   Rehovot, Israel   (02.25.06)
The idea is to get on the nerves of the Germans,and not on the Jews. Dutch-German soccer games are always filled with (misplaced) national pride. The idea is that the Dutch are now invading Germany. Perhaps a bad joke - at least they do not have in the Netherlands MK's who claim that gays are sick...It is better to clean up first your own garden before complaining about someone else.
25. Big deal - in the US you can buy the real stuff
Ben ,   Ariel, Israel   (02.25.06)
Sad - but this is about some plastics not bearing any nazi symbols. OK - the sales person is not smart, like his clients, but he is making the money. In the US, you can buy a lot of real stuff (incl weapons) with nazi symbols without any problems. That is something really to worry about.
26. ORANGE MOHAMMED T-SHIRTS
Arik ,   Rishon, Israel   (02.25.06)
Do not cry about these helmets, they look great with a mohammed t-shirt BUY NOW AN ORANGE MOHAMMED T-SHIRT IN HOLLAND http://www.mohammedcartoons.nl/
27. THE PA ORDERED 50.000 HELMETS
elana ,   Eilat, Israel   (02.25.06)
I am sure Iran is behind it.
28. To # 16. Ashamed
Ginette Golden ,   CANADA   (02.25.06)
Please don't feel ashamed...People do things for profit (as in this case) or by ignorance. A boycott of the manufactured helmets would be much more hurtful and efficient. Anyways, it takes a big man to write what you wrote. Thanks!
29. Tell Weno Geerts How You Feel
Manny Gold ,   Brooklyn, NY   (02.25.06)
Free Time Products (World Wide Trading Company) Nederland Tel. +31(0)622240493 K.v.K 17159658 BTW nummer 812497922B01 Rabobank 1064.78.028 Iban: NL32 Rabo 0106478028 Bic: Rabo nl 2 u Routebeschrijving Free Time Products information Algemeen: info@helmpje.nl Horeca: horeca@helmpje.nl Verenigingen: verenigingen@helmpje.nl Logo's: logo@helmpje.nl
30. Can humor heal even these wounds?
D- ,   San Diego, USA   (02.25.06)
If the caps look silly enough, just maybe...the Germans have realized true power = laughter. Uh oh, if they figure that out, there will be no stopping them from world conquest!
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