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In article <7685@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>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.
Um.  Didn't a lot of planes without swastikas bring terrible
destruction, including civilian casualties, to cities in Germany?  Is
reconstructing them considered a bad practice, too?

My father was a young boy in London throughout the war, and he never
had any problem with my constructing and marking models of either
side.  I thought the idea was to never forget?

Adrian.
arpepper@math.uwaterloo.ca