When the OP is taking public transportation to PAX East, I recommend getting off at the Haymarket Station first and walking over and thru the Holocaust Memorial. I'm sure you'll be a bigger hit there than at the convention.
Actually, maybe you should go visit the Holocaust Memorial beforehand and maybe you'll realize how stupid your idea would be.
This is exactly why I'm against watching, making, or acting in anything that contains nazis. All games with nazi's should be banned, and ever reference of them removed from the history books. We need to forget this ever happened, it's that horrible.......
A fact of life is that there are bad guys and sometimes it's fun to play a bad guy. This is no different then being hitler in a movie, or being a nazi soldier in a multiplayer game like battlefield. It is play acting, it is healthy, and there is nothing wrong with it. The people who get upset are the people with a mental issue. To survivors of the Holocaust attack actors who played nazi's? Do the protest games where you have the option to be the axis?
Should you let your kids play Axis and Allies? Or is it stupid and insensitive for you to be the axis player? Should we boycott Volkswagen? Maybe we should have killed Wernher Von Braun instead of giving him US citizenship and should immediately shutdown nasa for being insensitive to the jewish plight.....
Something horrible happened, we stopped the bad guys, you don't have to forget (because that would allow it to happen again) but you do have to get over it and move on. If we can't even wear a costume to a party how are we ever going to learn to advance as human beings?
Would there be as much problem here if his costume was a Japanese soldier outfit from WW2? I mean they only murdered 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most likely 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese, among others, including Western prisoners of war. But after all it's not a nazi symbol....
Is there even a Nanking massacre memorial in the US? Are children even taught about the horrors done to the Chinese and others by the Japanese? For those who don't know about it, it was a city where about 20,000–80,000 men, women and children were raped and then murdered.