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Article: Black shirts recall Nazi wickedness
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- The Nelson Mail
- Article date:
- October 10, 2009
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NORWEGIAN-born Nelson taxi driver Harald Kleiven, blacklisted for
refusing to wear a black shirt because it reminded him of
"wickedness" of the Nazi regime, is astounded at the Employment
Relations Authority's failure to back him.
Harald Kleiven worked as a wheelchair taxi driver for Russell
Moore, a member of the Nelson City Taxi Society, which in February
adopted a corporate uniform with a black shirt.
Mr Kleiven, whose family was in the resistance movement during
the Nazi occupation of Norway, has never worn a black shirt, which
reminds him of the German special police's uniform.
He told the ERA the shirt was an offensive reminder of the
"wickedness perpetrated by agents of the Nazi ...