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Article: Driver blacklisted after row over black shirt; EMPLOYMENT DISPUTE
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- The Press
- Article date:
- October 10, 2009
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A driver who suffered under the Nazis as a child has been
blacklisted by a Nelson taxi company after refusing to wear a black
shirt.
Harald Kleiven objected to wearing the Nelson City Taxi Society's
new uniform because of the black shirt which he considered an
offensive reminder of the "wickedness" of the Nazis during World War
II.
The most well known uniform of the notorious German special
police force, known as the SS, was all black. .
The 70-year-old was a child in Norway during the Nazi occupation
when his family were members of the resistance.
"I was 12 months old when war broke out and my soiled underwear
had things like ammunition, fuses and firing caps hidden in them,"
he told ...