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'Swastikas used in the making of the hit Amazon series The Man in the High Castle have been “proudly destroyed” since production ended, one of its stars has confirmed.
Actor Chelah Horsdal posted a video on Twitter that showed a leather prop with a swastika drawn on it being cut into miniature pieces.
The pieces are then shown being thrown into boxes. A message reading “Burn Pile” then appears on screen.
“Super satisfying,” Horsdal wrote. “Reminder that High Castle proudly destroyed all the swastikas that were produced for the show.”
In a second tweet, Horsdal confirmed that props used in the show depicting symbols of the Japanese Rising Sun had also been destroyed. “All flags and symbols that were in any way offensive or sensitive: destroyed,” she wrote.
Not all of Horsdal’s followers were happy about the video, however, with some claiming that the swastikas could have been recycled, potentially for use in additional film and television productions.'
(Yeah, no....)
Sauce: https://www.threads.com/@glitchkingz/post/DSzR_Q-iE0Y
Mor sauce: https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/streaming/man-in-the-high-castle-swastikas-nazis-destroyed-amazon-a9206906.html
andexer
We just started watching this and I commented to my wife that I wondered how they kept control of the nazi props and if they kept them from disappearing after filming. This is good to know - thanks!
OtterlyMagnificent
I can see how they would be able to reuse them for additional productions. HOWEVER...I also think they did the right thing in destroying them, to make a point that even Hollywood isn't keeping Nazi memorabilia around unless it is actively being used to make a point about how awful the Nazis were.
Macetheace50
NumptyDumptyLump
Everyone needs to save this for the certain next time business daddy does their bullshit. FP will be glorious!
ZiiB
Burn swastikas, not books
Khanamana324
Burning the nazis themselves is also acceptable.
ZiiB
I agree :)
NickNoltesDrinkingShack
I think we should cut out the middle man and man hours. Just start burning nazis. Their ideas and traitor tags burn and fuse with their corpse. No individual graves. Just one in the worst garbage dump on the US.
johnblood616
We made a Nazi-biker short film and there were some swaztikas we made for the baddies. We trashed em.
The701
https://www.threads.com/@glitchkingz/post/DSzR_Q-iE0Y Threads link minus the ?xmt=xxxx tracker tag part
HorrorMango
Sorry, I forgot to remove that. I will remove it.
The701
no worries, and thank you; I just try to keep spreading awareness of those sorts of trackers 🙂
HorrorMango
You're welcome
IlluminaBlade
If you're wearing a swastika I assume you're either currently acting in a role where your character gets shot, or you are not acting and can extrapolate for missing information.
Niagaran
Anybody actively wearing a swastika (and not clearly on a movie set) is fair fucking game.
Khanamana324
Same with anybody flying klan colours (the ‘rebel flag’) or has any ‘don’t tread on me’ crap.
stronomer
Swastikas being recycled is the current theme in the US, so no.
circlebreaker
Anyone else thinking that the yellow cutting tool would be perfect for pizzas not made in Chicago?
ShadeMeadowsArt
This is BEAUTIFUL
Cervidaesigns
In 2018, in a friends mom's coin hoard, I found a Reichsmark. When I posted on FB asking how to destroy it. A formerly very close friend insisted and even argued I don't because it's part of history. We parted ways for unrelated reasons. I deleted FB in 2020. Last year before the election I found out her profile picture was a certain photo from a certain event in mid July in Butler PA. Shouldn't be hard to guess which.
G0MeatCube
Show the video of them being burned pussy
yopick
/gallery/Z2p7Pg1#RK6kMSa all for the burn pile
FrankRizzo55
This seems very inefficient. You'd get much better results if you gathered them all up in one spot and destroyed them in large groups. Then you can throw them all back together and burn them.
PassionAggressive
“Goose-stepping morons like yourselves should try reading books instead of burning them.” Burn that shit my friends
yopick
Agreed that it shouldn’t be reused as that just assures someone in the industry will get the idea to then sell it on eBay and it’ll be back representing the worst of humans.
LordNoKids
Show ended poorly, first two seasons were great
thedill2000
Recycle? Some think that a material embodies what it was built for and remembers. Does this happen? I'd think no. But sometimes, don't take the risk.
SprinklesMckitten
I'm sure there's a funny joke to be made about this in german, but they seem ti be missing their writers and comedians
faphappyscreencappy
Re: re-using or recycling, I *kinda* get the point. If someone got the idea to turn "The Sound of Music" into an Amazon mini-series down the road, I can't imagine greeting the idea of working on new swastika props with any kind of enthusiasm.
cyno01
Ive heard its traditional for productions of The Sound of Music to destroy the Nazi uniforms at the end of the run.
Telharmonius
Hogan's Heroes could not be made today.
cre8majic
Trivia: when they filmed scenes of Sound of Music in Salzburg, some older people became very frightened by the nazi flags hanging on bldgs
thundercactus
Here's the unfortunate truth of the matter; you can ALWAYS make new Nazi props for media.
The up side of that is there's no reason to ever keep your Nazi props.
193X
It's likely cheaper to remake them anyway. Screen props are not made to be archival. So storing them in an archival manner is expensive. Especially true when you don't know when they're going to be used next. Next year? In five years? Never?
Epicentr
The next presidency?
thundercactus
The current presidency? I wouldn't be surprised if PeeWee Himmler wears a Nazi armband under his jacket.
lackinglife
The problem I would think is Nazi swag is always worth something to someone. There's no way you could store it and not come back to like half it it missing
chaoskitten1331
Yeah but like, anyone who cares that much about Nazi stuff… is just gonna make their own Nazi stuff?
Like people can make their own stuff, that’s how they did it the very first time
Zalm
Nazis are, more or less, bad people. They likely arent up to any good, ever. They would be more than willing to break in, and steal stuff, than work on anything of their own. Then, when you go to the storage location, half or more of the shits missing, cuz Nazis stole it, and you gotta make more anyway, thus defeating the purpose, and basically giving more nazi paraphernalia to said nazis.
eronth
You're not wrong, but make them spend their own money on it, don't use production costs for Nazi's to fill out their equipment.
chaoskitten1331
Yeah yeah but have you also considered that there is *absolutely* a theater company getting ready to do The Sound of Music live that *also* could have used it?
Probably not, because no one thinks about theater anymore
bamblebimble
Eh, a lot of those old musicals have really bad premises. The sound of music is one of them. And I don't mean it being set during Nazi occupation is the bad premise, that's just history of the area.
From what I've seen of old musicals they're ripe with: sexism, kidnappings, Stockholm syndrome, bad people getting good things to happen to them and living happily ever after, glorifying rape, etc. Some are worse than others, but I dont think i saw a single one where one of those things wasnt a
SteveTheEgg
Idk, i feel like Spielberg or someone, preferably Jewish, should just have a Hollywood Nazi stash to recreate everything. Because while everyone is like it's "it's good not to hold on to it!" I feel like I'm the only one that realized it also means they have to make that many more for the next production featuring a very popular historic period. Like I personally think ordering a 1000 Nazi flags is worse than storing and renting out 100 Nazi flags to ethical productions ten times.
RyvaTheRenamon
Honestly i agree with this. And yeah there is a lot of storage of stuff for that exact reason as well.
Gaelwyn
Yep, this is why prop houses, etc., exist. It's wasteful to destroy props that could easily be used for future productions. I understand the sentiment of destroying them, but generally speaking, that's not a great use of resources or eco friendly.
ps238principal
When this show was airing, they made these propaganda posters to promote the show for a resistance-oriented radio station to fight the Nazis.
Trump supporters complained, believing the posters were about them.
https://gizmodo.com/trump-supporters-get-mad-because-they-think-the-man-in-1793159888
Ebo352
When the West Wing was airing, a not 0% of the US population believed that Matin Sheen's character was president
b10baloo
Lol at the update.
"Update: Changed and added tweets because a previous one was deleted, presumably for obvious reasons."
ToenailClippingsJar
I should be surprised. Really.
It’s a sad state we’re in when my only reaction is ‘figures..’.
SavageDrums
There is nothing about which they cannot be the biggest idiots ever.
ShadeMeadowsArt
Funny how that works!
Clayman8
Hilariously proving the entire point... 🤦♂️
Toqom
When the last Wolfenstein game was released and they tweeted it was time to kill Nazis a ton of Republicans told them to stop being political and stick to gaming. The Nazis are absolutely back
CordChart
Trump supporters think THE AMAZING RACE is a show about white people. Also, Donald Trump, that guy that people call The President, is a rapist.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Trump also wanted to have a blacks vs. whites season of The Apprentice.
eronth
That wouldn't be the first time trump supporters assumed evil cult related stuff was about them.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Remember when they got offended that the newest Wolfenstein game showed Nazis as the bad guys?
eronth
Yup. Or when Farcry 5 (I think) had a literal cult as the enemy and they thought it was explicitly about them.
OtterlyMagnificent
It's always entertaining to post something about telling Nazis to get the fuck out of somewhere, and Republicans coming in saying 'You can't just call everyone you disagree with a Nazi'. Like...we're talking about kicking out people wearing swastikas, why are you defending them?
CaveJohnsonHatesLemons
How to find the nazi in the room.
Say you hate nazis.
Wait for someone to argue with that concept.
You've found the nazi.
ahbrannon1
I have this NAZI flag that my father in law took off of a dead Nazi they had just killed. A fate that all fascist deserve.
firlefranz
Ask the White House; rumor has it they need them for ties.../s
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/adolf-hitler-donald-trump-mein-kampf-bluffed-way-to-power-nazi-leader-germany-fuhrer-us-president-election-ron-rosenbaum-a7568506.html
Niagaran
Burn it. There is no valid reason to keep a swastika in your home. Ever.
Niagaran
I seem to have offended a couple of nazi memorabilia collectors lol
Closet nazis
Deadlymoocow
nah donate it to a reputable museum. if its a legit historical relic let the future learn of the horrors and see the flag of the perpetrators.
Niagaran
Right and that would be not keeping it *in your home*.
michiyl
You need to keep artifacts of that time so that people can see that these horrible times have really happened, and aren't just black-and-white archive footages and texts in a book. Of course, context matters - I wouldn't trust Elon Musk to handle Nazi memorabilia.
Niagaran
That's what museums are for. Not the spot over your mantlepiece.
DonkeyGoat
That was a great show but it kinda lost me towards the end
CrossEyedPigeonToed
There was supposed to be a season 5, but amazon cancelled it so the writers had to stuff a bunch of shit into one last season to tie it up.
billyrayvirus
Alternative history is neat. Multiverse is tired.
CertifiedBonerDonor
This show started out good, then just turned into a soap opera that was barely watchable
Skawomplious
They always do. I can't remember the last time I finished watching a series - they ALWAYS end up a soap opera.
jesuisgur
I wonder if there is a list of TV shows with *satisfying* last seasons and endings. I know I watch very few TV shows and often wait till they are finished before I start, meaning that's less than one a year !
ThomasThundersword
Stargate SG1 Especially if you consider Season 8 as the end of SG1 and seasons 9/10 as the two seasons of the spinoff they were planned to be. Don’t get me wrong, 9/10 are great and with the ark and truth and continuum movies still have a fun and satisfying ending. but there is something special about how S8 (which was planned as a finale) wrapped things up. then we got bonus content after!!
DonkeyGoat
Sense8 got canceled, fans got pissed, so they made a movie to wrap everything up
SignedEpsteinsMother
Cheers and M*A*S*H had "satisfying" endings
JB4T5
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls025887260/
BrockEffingSamson
Interesting list. Don't know that I agree about Angel, but The Good Place is one of the best pieces of art that our species has ever produced, and the ending is absolute perfection.
JB4T5
I just looked for a list since someone asked if there was one
ContinuallySenseless
I think Babylon 5 ended well, but it's been a long time since I saw it. And just recently thought about re-watching it, no streamer has it (here at least). The rips on "alternative" sites are.... pretty dogshit quality honestly, unless your willing to download 5Gb/episode bluray rip which is supposed to be "a bit better".
FrozenMojo
Yeah the last season was.... Bad
DebitCatIsWatching
It just dawned on me that it's probably intentional. If you want to be done with a project, you need to jump the shark otherwise fans are going to harass you to come back to it until the end of days.
Zalm
as is tradition in modern television series
imnotinthewitnessprotectionprogram
Game of Thrones wasn’t the first they just carried on the tradition
Zalm
Scrubs before it
hsalonen3000
I think there would be a market in USA for those. Do Republican voters get a discount?
PrincessBatCat
No, but they should get a punch to the face.
faphappyscreencappy
Showing a video destroying swastikas? Witnessed. /s
Margrave9000
Good guy Amazon. Doing the right thing. Trust global corporations. They always listen to independent experts, and successfully combat rape culture, slavery, hatred, child labor, tax evasion and all sortd of bad things attributed to capitalism and patriarchy.
AydenBeeson
Lol sarcasm is lost on at least 6 people
LicensedAdHominem
No, it's really not.
Margrave9000
How can you tell what's lost on whom?
LicensedAdHominem
That's the point. It's not lost on me and I hated it. I don't believe it's lost on ANYONE. Especially when it's been explicitly pointed out. And I'm not the one who made claims about it first. You're not special to figure out it's sarcasm, and that doesn't make it good even if you felt a tingle. It's just kinda shit. That's all there is to it.
hellsgunslinger
I was gonna post my opinion on what I think is the only valid reason to have a swastika but im pretty sure it'd get me banned seeing as talking about un-aliving people is generally frowned upon
FallingStar7669
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it". Telling stories has been and continues to be one of - if not the best - way of passing our history down to the next generation. A blanket ban on all things Nazi would naturally include things like the graphic novel 'Maus' or the movie 'Schindler's List', and I'm sure that's not what you want. What matters is how we treat these things, and "publically burning Nazi symbology when the production wraps" is a very good treatment.
Niagaran
As far as I'm concerned, there is never a valid reason to own a swastika. We have pictures of them, we don't need physical materials. I don't care if your grandfather took it from a nazi he killed, burn that shit. Burn it all.
Exoticz
I know people have an emotinal repulsion against the (nazi) swastika, but what would be wrong with owning a piece of history like the example you gave? We also have confederate flags, old war memorabilia (guns, ammo, etc.), other symbols or flags (hammer and sickel, etc.) that we keep as part of history. Do you have a good reason why the nazi swastika is any different, or is it just an emotional response?
Niagaran
What are your thoughts on someone, say, having a little library of souvenirs from child rapists? Little bits of the children's clothing or baby teeth.
Is that okay or would it elicit an emotional response?
Niagaran
Museums exist.
The only people who keep nazi memorabilia in their homes are closeted (and open) nazis.
PrincessBatCat
For one- because of what nazis represent, the hatred behind their so-called beliefs.
Niagaran
I can't believe there are people who think owning anything shit like this is okay.
Exoticz
My question specifically asked what the difference was. If you say that those things are unacceptable because the ideology behind it is hateful, does that mean that anything from an ideology that is considered hateful should not be acceptable?
WabbitHuntn
The beginning of all evil powers in history starts with burning stuff and persecuting those with views that differ to our own. You deny humans of something and you end up making it more appealing. Look at drugs and alcohol. Prohibition made them more popular.
ParryLost
Please, for the love of god, tell me you're trolling. ... Ah, who am I kidding, there's millions dumb and evil enough to support Trump...
WabbitHuntn
I'm not dumb enough to even be American, I feel sorry for you dipsticks.
ParryLost
You're not dumb enough to be born in this part of the world / not be too poor or in too complicated a situation to be able to leave easily? Wow, what an accomplishment on your part! :P But I meant it more in the sense of, I know there's millions of evil and stupid people out there in general, so much as I'd like to believe that it'd take a troll to DEFEND LITERAL NAZISM, if I'm honest with myself, I know there's people, both American and otherwise, who are dumb/bad enough to do it seriously.
WabbitHuntn
Please point out where I defend Nazism? I want the drugs you're on, they must be good to create conclusions that don't exist.
ParryLost
Lol, fuck off. /gallery/xtHCfaG/comment/2486173347 At least you being this tiresome does suggest you are indeed a troll!
Dracon27
Look, an idiot.
mooseablethenok
For the fucking millionth time, jackass being a Nazi is not a matter of fucking opinion it is a threat of violence against all rational and safe human beings. Nazis SHOULD be persecuted, because they are criminal thugs.
WabbitHuntn
Are you one of the idiots that call Jews Nazis cause you haven't studied history?
mooseablethenok
Are you one of those idiots that thinks Fascism holds any place in the marketplace of ideas when it's express intent is the removal of the pillars holding up the roof of the market?
HarelessMoon
The greatest thing YOU will ever accomplish in life, is eventually being turned into fertilizer.
WabbitHuntn
That's funny, the Nazis said the same thing about the Jews. You Nazi?
HarelessMoon
You're terrible at this.
WabbitHuntn
You're just a terrible person, if your trying to shit on people for entertainment.
LicensedAdHominem
You deny humans the right to murder and suddenly they just want it more!
You fucking moron.
WabbitHuntn
I'd say something, but it would be sophisticated for you and go straight over your head. I pray you grow brains and go back to school and stop sniffing glue.
LicensedAdHominem
Holy shit you're bad at this.