PARACULTURAL CALENDAR FOR JULY 17

[Mark Thibodeau]

I have seig heil'd for comic effect (not for a long time now, but times
change... which is the point).

MT

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 3:42 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> On 18.07.2015 05:26, Mark Thibodeau wrote:
>
>
>  On this day in *1917*, England's *King George V* issues a Proclamation
> stating that the male
> line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname
> *Windsor*. This is done to
> remove the Teutonic stink from their "royal house", due to rising
> anti-German sentiment over
> the First (and eventually, the Second) World War(s).
>
>
>
> http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/royals/6548665/Their-Royal-Heilnesses.html
>
> > THE Queen and Queen Mum raise a Nazi salute in an astonishing home movie
> shot at Balmoral and seen today for the first time.
>
> The film shows the then Princess Elizabeth, just seven, larking about in
> 1933.
>
> Egging on her sister Princess Margaret, three, is their uncle Prince
> Edward, Prince of Wales. He was a sympathiser towards Hitler’s Nazi Germany
> and became King Edward VIII.
>
> The stunning film footage of the Queen performing a Nazi salute is today
> revealed by The Sun.
>
> The astonishing clip lay hidden for eight decades. The grainy home movie
> is thought to have been shot in 1933 or 1934, as Hitler rose to supreme
> power in Germany.
>
> The 20-second cine film reveals Edward, who once gave a Nazi salute to
> Hitler and claimed he was “not a bad chap”, larking around with his
> sister-in-law the Queen Mother and her young children in the grounds of
> Balmoral.
>
> The Queen, in tartan kilt or skirt, is aged around seven while Margaret is
> three. The clip opens with a playful Elizabeth grabbing one of the royal
> corgis and pushing the dog across the lawn.
>
> Facing the camera, she raises her arm in a Nazi salute. Margaret lifts a
> hand — her left, in a playful wave.
>
> Elizabeth performs a Scottish jig then raises her right arm again, joining
> in with the Queen Mum as they both stand bolt upright with right arms
> hoisted.
>
> Encouraged by Uncle Edward, Margaret raises her arms again before the clip
> ends with the Queen Mum and Edward saluting with their right arms. <
>
>
>
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