Slytherin / Nazi Parallels (was Re: Scapegoating Slytherin (was:Punishing Draco ))

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 144011

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Claudia" <mudblood68 at y...> 
wrote:
>
> La Gatta wrote:
> > The pure-blood snobbishness of the Wizarding World reminds 
> > me <snip> of Germany and the NAZI Party. The parallels are 
> > remarkable--WWI and WWII, the pure-blood perception that 
> > Muggles, mud-bloods, and even mixed-blood Wizards are somehow 
> > infra dig (and the belief of extreme cases that Muggles and 
> > mud-bloods at least are subhuman and should be destroyed), 
> > the Aryan blondness of the Malfoys, a leader (fuhrer?) so 
> > powerful and so vile that most of the Wizarding World won't 
> > even speak his name... And if you want to *really* creep 
> > yourself out, take a look at the SS Gestapo insignia. (Ever 
> > wonder where JKR got Harry's scar?) <snip>
> 
> 
> Claudia:
> There is another parallel: there was a subdivision of Hitler's 
> SS-army, the "SS-Totenkopfverbande" (SS Deaths Head Organization) 
> which was mainly responsible for guarding the konzentration camps. 
> Their insignia was a scull on the collar of their uniform.
> 
> Claudia
>
There was also the thunderbolt insignia that formed a stylized "SS", 
also worn on the collar.

--La Gatta