Because of the many requests, we at Germania have finally opened a section for weapons, badges, etc., of the British Empire. We are essentially a site for Germanophiles (this is, lovers of all that is Germanic or Teutonic), but having said that, it must be realized that the English, Scottish, and Welsh people have the same blood, the same origin. Although England, through its colonial aspirations and Imperial agenda, made itself the enemy of most of the known world in its martial past. Its soldiers have shown extreme proficiency in the art of war. They, like their German cousins, had arrived at extreme martial excellence even though in the light of historical revisionism it seems wasted because of the ends of the fratricidal wars known as World War I and World War II, where the empire was finally lost and now we have the likes of a wimp like Tony Blair instead of good King Arthur. We could go on and on about this, but suffice it to say that we are enamored of England’s past glories, not her recent failures. Britannia once ruled the waves (and the land in many cases). These past days of Britannic glory are celebrated with her uniforms, weapons, badges, medals: all relics of better and nobler times. The regal splendor of the kings, princes, and other nobility evoke pictures of the empire when it was master. Those days are gone; never to return as the west declines, but we as Germanophiles can recall those days of splendor and high adventure through the accumulation or even the viewing of these relics of Britannic saga. We also, of course, would highly honor the fighting warriors of the Scottish homeland and even more so because theirs was not conquest. Their claim to ever-remembered glory is in defense of Scotia and service to king and country. They were and are the bravest of the brave. The anthem of the Scots is “Scotland the Brave,” a title well earned in the great conflicts fought by such as William Wallace and Robert the Bruce against the wiles and dubious way of the English warlords of infamy. The Scottish treasure is not silver or gold: it is a sense of freedom and duty to kith and kin and the Scottish lands. “The tunes of glory” resound in the skirl o’ the pipes and the courage of the Scottish fighting man. No nation has been more admired or worse used. Many thousands of kilties have died in England’s fratricidal wars and to absolutely no avail to Scotland or its Germanic folk. The Scottish warrior is the most fearsome fighting machine in the annals of the world’s armies--admired by his foes, but misused by his British officialdom. The horrible conflicts of WWI and WWII saw brave Scottish regiments effectively killing and being killed in a fratricidal bloodbath while the people for whom the war was fought sat back in the wardrooms and enjoyed a shot of Haig and Haig and read the casualty reports. We could take this much farther also, but will terminate this barrage of rationale at this point before our own Scottish blood boils. In any case, Germania now introduces our ‘British Isles’ department and we hope that it is received in the same enthusiasm that our continental relics have. It is our pleasure to now introduce “Britain and Scotland.”