When i left the British Army, i decided to dress young boys in a military style uniform and teach them survival techniques that i had learned in the army and thus the Scouting movement was born and kids could earn badges for passing certain tasks, badges that had a swastika symbol on them.
With hindsight, i could try and make the argument that i was not a Nazi sympathiser, rather that the symbol was from India and meant 'good luck' but that rather falls apart where you look in the pages of my own diary where i wrote in 1939 'Lay up all day. Read Mein Kampf. A wonderful book, with good ideas on education, health, propaganda, organisation etc'.
Indeed, Mein Kampf is a ripping yarn but after i died the Scouts quickly dumped the use of the Swastika on their badges although they continued to use my oaths to 'love my God' and 'serve the Queen and country', or rather they did because that has gone the way of the Swastika and been kicked out.
Unfortunately, as hardly anyone is left who still believes in God and the Royals are not as popular as they once where, making an oath to a God that hardly anyone believes in anymore in modern times and a mega-rich lady who lives in a Palace doesn't rank very high on any ones list.
Still, my scouts are still going strong and who doesn't love a boy i uniform, i know i certainly did.
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