The confederate flag is also big in the rock-a-billy scene in Scandinavia (heard this at a conference once talking about the Finnish scene). Some actually white power bands in Europe also incorporate the confederate flag, because they often can’t use the nazi flag, because it’s a illegal. In one case, it’s meant to just be a bland symbol of US southern culture, in another, it’s a knowing use of a racist symbol. To us, obviously, these are laden with meanings that it they don’t have elsewhere
It’s kind of a weird thing when you take symbols that are problematic in one place (confederate flag here in the US or Nazi symbols in Europe/N. America) may not be seen as such by those using them in another place. The use of nazi uniforms in this case seems to be that… Whether that makes it “okay” I honestly don’t know.
