They are wearing stahlhelms again and doing torchlit parades in front of the leader. Do they not know this is a very bad aesthetic for them, does the Red Army need to roll into Berlin again since they obviously didn't learn their lesson from last time.
Someone should tell these guys this looks really sinister, simply a bad look
this looks really sinister if literally all you know about our country is hitler
im not typically one to defend germany but come on mate, this is merkel's departure ceremony and they were playing songs from the 70s that she asked for
this country does enough real bad shit that you can criticize, can you not scream about nazi germany over a completely harmless tradition that has existed for like 200 years?
Nazis tend to taint lots of traditions and symbols that have existed for centuries. See: swastika (at least in the west).
It’s a completely understandable response to immediately be reminded of the nazis when you see a bunch of german soldiers marching in black, wearing stahlhelms, and carrying torches.
Might be overboard, but the rest of the world has every reason to see that shit and be like :what-the-hell:
The wrong germany won the reunification struggle.
Rest in power :GDR-emblem:
I mean, like the poster above showed, DDR did this as well and they were playing Nina Hagen and other 70s songs.
It seems a lot less threatening in action than in pictures.
Wait, they were playing Nina Hagen for Merkel? What the fuck
She is from the DDR and was young in the 70s. Of course she is a Nina Hagen fan.
Huh. Didn't know she was from the DDR. Explains why she wasn't full fash despite being a conservative.
On the contrary if you look at the fash distribution in germany. The west fucked over and neglected the east so hard post reunification till today, that many there have a rightful anger that then gets entirely misdirected because the solution could of course not be to the left where the evil DDR is.
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Better to reclaim it from its use by Nazis than leave a pretty cool looking thing to neo-Nazis
Naw dude, firm disagree. This line of thinking is really similar to “patriotic socialist” brainworms.
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My Trotskyist newspaper is cool
Give me your lunch money.
But also I’ll take a paper, it does sound cool.
too late I've already decided fire is cool and I'm sticking with it
no fire is cool and good and I'm gonna make fire a communist thing now
Agreed. Germany shouldn't get to decide what is and is not tasteful for Germany to do which it has ANYTHING to do with Nazis. "oh we dont see it like that here" is not a good excuse,
The teutonic skull shape compels them to goose step in silly outfits