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Wearing traditional black clothes is not necessarily racist. Wearing blackface has a long history of being directly racist.
There isn't an equivalent with wearing Nazi clothes.
Sure wearing a swastika is totally normal... the outlash after prince harry had one on halloween wasn't equivalent to someone wearing blackface at all...
The point is art has the right to open a discussion and to show the bad sites of society. It's ok for a non racist artist to play a racist and that includes letting that character wear blackface or a swastika.
It's also fine to do something controversial like wearing a blackface in the context of cosplay to have the society talk about it.