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Truth in Advertising: GOP Candidate Dresses in Waffen SS Uniform

Com­ment: GOP Con­gres­sion­al can­di­date Rich Iott of Ohio has been fly­ing col­ors that demon­strate the true nature of the Repub­li­can par­ty. A favorite of the Tea Par­ties, Iott for years par­tic­i­pat­ed in “reen­act­ments” of bat­tles of the Fifth Waf­fen SS divi­sion (Viking). (Iott is sec­ond from right in this pho­to.)

As not­ed in numer­ous broad­casts, the GOP [1] is lit­tle more than a front [2] for a Third Reich gone under­ground. [3]

“Why Is this GOP House Can­di­date Dressed as a Nazi?” by Joshua Green; The Atlantic; 10/08/2010.

Excerpt: An elec­tion year already notable for its menagerie of extreme and unusu­al can­di­dates can add anoth­er one: Rich Iott, the Repub­li­can nom­i­nee for Con­gress from Ohio’s 9th Dis­trict, and a Tea Par­ty favorite, who for years donned a Ger­man Waf­fen SS uni­form and par­tic­i­pat­ed in Nazi re-enact­ments.

Iott, whose dis­trict lies in North­west Ohio, was involved with a group that calls itself Wik­ing, whose mem­bers are devot­ed to re-enact­ing the exploits of an actu­al Nazi divi­sion, the 5th SS Panz­er Divi­sion Wik­ing, which fought main­ly on the East­ern Front dur­ing World War II. Iot­t’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Wik­ing group is not men­tioned on his cam­paign’s web­site, and his name and pho­tographs were removed from the Wik­ing website.When con­tact­ed by The Atlantic, Iott con­firmed his involve­ment with the group over a num­ber of years, but said his inter­est in Nazi Ger­many was his­tor­i­cal and he does not sub­scribe to the tenets of Nazism. . . .