"This is worse than normal teenage stupidity, because the boys will have been taught about what Hitler's Germany did in school. It was not done in ignorance."

Precisely the point Penny, knowledge that it's wrong is what makes the act of stupidity so attractive to those who behave that way. I remember very clearly how, in my very early teens in the early '60s, and as one of a gang of school-mates, I used to shout about how wonderful the Gestapo were, and what a fine chap Adolf Hitler had been. All this whilst surrounded by people who had only a few years earlier gone through the six horrendous years of WW2. I knew it was bollocks and I knew I was behaving like an arsehole, but it felt so.....clever.......edgy.....dangerous.

Thankfully, I grew up.

I'm sure those scouts have realised it was an arsehole thing to do and, like I did, they probably feel pretty crappy about it now. I hope so.