He must be thinking those were the good ol' days.

On Jan. 13, newspapers, television stations and radio talk shows were all about "Harry the Nazi," after the prince, 20, somehow thought it a good idea to dress in a Nazi uniform at a private costume party with 250 guests, just two weeks before the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

"Harry the Nazi," read the headline on the tabloid Sun's front page. And there was Harry, in a tan desert uniform of Rommel's Afrika Korps, holding a drink in one hand, a cigarette in the other. Wrapped around his left arm was a red Nazi armband with black swastika.

"This behavior by the prince is inexcusable," said Ian Davidson, a Labour Party member of Parliament, dismissing the prince's written apology as inadequate. "He is posh, thick and a bit of a thug."

"This was a shameful act displaying insensitivity for the victims, not just for those soldiers of his country who gave their lives to defeat Nazism but to the victims of the Holocaust who were the principal victims of the Nazis," said a statement from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

The Japan Times Weekly: Jan. 22, 2005
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