Should Newspapers Print Pictures Of The Queen Giving Nazis Salute?

[Gromit]

Some down market newspapers today have printed photographs of the Queen, aged 7 years old, practising the Nazi salute, in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/11748024/Buckingham-Palace-disappointed-at-1933-footage-released-by-The-Sun.html

Is there a public interest justification for printing the pictures?

Or is it disrespectful to her majesty?

[Svejk]

Would you like to see pictures of grown-ups giving the Nazi salute, Gromit. Possibly friends of yours.
https://richardmillett.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/hezbollah-terrorists.jpg
http://www.thecommentator.com/system/articles/inner_pictures/000/002/657/original/hamas.jpg?1360153765

[stuey]

Almost as much fuss and and "outrage' about this incident as that generated by the coat-hanger wielding bankers a short while ago...Tempests in teacups, knickers in knots, and brandishing of pitchforks and flaming torches

[ummmm]

Svejk...I don't understand why you posted those links?

[Svejk]

Really, why not have a stab?

[ummmm]

Are you saying he's a Nazi sympathiser?

[Svejk]

Palestinian

[Svejk]

And the point is that the same people that throw their hands up in faux outrage at 80 year old pictures of a six year old conveniently ignore their 'heroes' conduct today.

[retrocop]

Svejk
Are those "heroes" you refer to the same who are not much older than 6 years and shoot prisoners in the back of the head? Oh the evil of mocking Hitler sinks further back into insignificance.

[ummmm]

You've lost me. Who are his heroes?

[stuey]

That photo is both cheerful and bitter at the same time. Cheerful in the respect that it shows family members cavorting on a lawn during a peaceful time in pre-war Britain, and bitter because WE NOW know what what to come to pass. THEY, in 1933, had absolutely no inkling of the devastation and misery that was to ensue. I doubt that the "evil" uncle could even foretell the future.

[Gromit]

Svejk,

I'm not throwing my arms up in fake outrage. The Queen was a child so I'm not outraged at all. It is not the salute my question is about. My question seems too difficult for you and AOG to understand, so I will rephrase it.

Is printing unflattering and embarrassing pictures of the Queen disrespectful?

[Svejk]

You're boring me now, ummmm. Happy Eid. ;o)

[Svejk]

I refer you to AOG's [email protected].

[stuey]

The point is, Gromit, that the pictures are not disrespectful or embarrassing: they are historical foot-notes in a way.

[EDDIE51]

I just posted historical fact, I am NOT a nazi sympathizer .
How many of you realise the extent to which the Daily Mail and to a lesser extent the Daily Mirror were sympathetic to the Nazi's and Hitler in the 1930s?. They were the 2 biggest selling papers of the day and had a huge influence on public opinion, remember there was no TV and not everyone even had a radio,so newspapers were far more influential than they are now
.https://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/its-time-the-daily-mail-apologised-for-supporting-hitler-and-its-anti-semitic-past/

[EDDIE51]

Try link again
https://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/its-time-the-daily-mail-apologised-for-supporting-hitler-and-its-anti-semitic-past/

[Gromit]

Svejk,
A big fail telling me who I support, then concluding I support fascists.

Just because I have some sympathy with the plight of the Palestinian people, does not mean I support Hamas or Fatah.

I have sympathy for the British people, but that does not mean I support Labour or the Conservatives.

[ummmm]

I really think people read things completely differently to me.

Gromit...I just had you down as someone who favoured facts over the media's intended outrage.

[retrocop]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660668
I don't suppose any one would like to accuse the Royal British Legion as right wing Nazi sympathisers as a result of this,in retrospect,naive visit to Nazi Germany in 1935. It was called diplomacy in those days and there was no inkling that a 2nd war would be coming round the corner.
They were shown Dachau Concentration Camp and were told it was for the workshy and perverts. They were told that the Jewish inmates were recent immigrants being watched.
On face value,at the time, plausible an innocent.
How were the RBL to know it would be turned into a Nazi Propaganda exercise.
Most British didn't know what propaganda meant in those days.

[Retrochic]

Just another example of how low British journalism has stooped to get a story (non story). Thank goodness they were not playing cowboys and Indians otherwise the queen would be accused of racism against the American First Nations.