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In article <1992Oct15.100606.11418@waikato.ac.nz> matt@waikato.ac.nz writes:
 >   I am married to a Dutch woman, and her parents were in Holland during the
 > Nazi occupation.  Interestingly, the swastikas don't seem to bother them,
 > but they say if kits with swastikas were sold in Europe someone would break
 > into the shop and trash the place.
Probably so.  But the most problematical is that you will find the
Swastika again all over the place painted by Neo-Nazis.  I think it is
worse in Germany.  I am not a real model builder, but I know the zeal
to get the model right.  The problem with German WWII airplanes is that
so many people have seen them flying in the air and dropping bombs or
whatever.  I know quite a few people who would even consider reconstructing
such a plane as bad practice.
 > But I do know that wartime memories are still very strong in Europe and for 
 > that reason I often leave them off.
True.  Very true.  In the Netherlands it is still custom to not use the
combinations SA, SD and SS on the registration.  Younger people query
why that is the case, but it is because of the unresolved frustrations
from WWII.

The people from Canada, US and other countries overseas do not have that
problem because they simply won the war (there may have been some
casualties, but that is inherent in war), here there are still people
alive that have lived through the war.
-- 
dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj  amsterdam, nederland
home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn  amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl