Finally the real deal!

Guy in German Nazi Uniform spotted in Tokyo

To finish off my series about German Nazi occurrences in Japan, here is finally somebody who really was into it and knew what he was doing – I met him at August 15th, the yearly anniversary of Japan’s surrender in WWII.

I followed him around a while and tried to talk to him to actually get a permission to take his photo, but he basically run away…so I took the liberty to shoot him without.

He was wearing something like a free style version of a German WWII uniform, complete with swastika on his arm, SS insignia on his collar, an iron cross on his chest and a selection of other related Nazi paraphernalia, none of them are allowed to show or wear in public in Germany. And he definitely was in another league than the Fashion-Nazis, the Nazi Cosplayers or the people in the shop who sell Hitler masks.

Talking to the girl wearing the swastika T-shirt, it came out that she actually knew what she was doing and wearing and she did it for the shock effect, not for her political agenda. This can be interpreted as tasteless or revolting, decide for yourself. The Nazi-Cosplayer had actually no idea what this particular version of the swastika stood for, she was just a fan of one of these Japanese bands who used to wear it on stage also for the shock effect – turning it unknowingly into a short lived fashion trend among their fans.