So the Top Gear team are in trouble because they mentioned Hitler or did a Nazi salute. Some sad lonely individual made a complaint (whose identity, of course must be kept secret). I'm pleased the BBC have refused to back down. We have to face our past and learn not deny or try to ignore it.

Hitler was a nutcase untimately and if he had not killed the German jews he might even had succeeded, after all he would have had a lot more soldiers/scientists/rocket experts and money. But like most that went before him and came after him they only crave their own success.

The Nazi regime was powerful and enviable in the way the Roman Empire was and the British Empire was not. Total power without concience. We, of course had one. That's why we conquered and then tried to rule with fairness and not total aggression and inevitably had to divide and rule, Indian/Pakistan, N Yemen, S Yemen, N Ireland, S Ireland, Israel/Palestine the list goes on! So does the killing.

I think the Nazis had some very reasonable attitudes which, as I say, had they not been guided to ethnic cleansing, could have been successful. The Nazi salute was based on the Roman salute, I don't hear ayone get offended when you mention the rape of Britain by the Italians in the first century? Soon anyone who was alive in WW2 will have passed and we can move on.