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| Funeral Scene from The Wild Angels with Peter Fonda, 1966. The movie represents the swastika and the cross as antitheses, reflecting Anglo-American propaganda more than historic National-Socialism, but the swastika as a symbol of rebellion against restrictions had a certain appeal, and was used that way in a number of cinematic productions in the 1960s. Today you won’t see that. |
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| Musicians also used the swastika to indicate their independence from restrictive authority. From left to right, Siouxsie Sioux, Lemmy Kilmeister of Motorhead, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, and members of the Slovenian band Laibach. Several of these people in one way or another apologized under pressure. Sid Vicious most likely never apologized, but when the movie Sid and Nancy was made (1986), the swastika shirt was bowdlerized, replaced with a hammer-and-sickle shirt. Even the portrayal of a total degenerate like Sid Vicious wearing a swastika, as he often did, is for some people too much of an endorsement to be allowed. It would be surprising to see this today. |
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Talking to Cantwell, I conflated the plastic model kit of Tom Daniel’s “Red Baron” with “Rommel’s Rod.” These were created in the late 60s and were sold for years in K-Mart. Both show that attitudes were very different in the 60s and 70s compared to now. “Nazi stuff” was cool — and permitted.
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| Sadly the cutout of Adolf Hitler ultimately did not appear in the famous album-cover. |
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 Bowie later apologized and proved that he really was a degenerate after all.
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| Two of the most popular series that ever aired on CBS Television featured characters whose cherished emblem was the Confederate Battle Flag — which now, in the ratcheting-up of Political Correctness, has become a target for moralizing lunatics on a par with the swastika. |
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The Kurt H. Debus Conference Facility at Kennedy Space Center, named after the former ardent National-Socialist who was the USA’s chief authority on rocket-launches from 1952 and retired as director of Kennedy Space Center in 1974. The conference-center has kept its name so far perhaps because there is no university-campus nearby.
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