Seen on a street (not in Germany)

[Feanorcurufinwe]

[Systematic Chaos]

1. OOOOOH, I WANT ONE!

Not an asshole, one of the posters!

[goddess40]

16. Very funny

I want a t-shirt with this poster on it!

[JVS]

2. Not Germany

I've seen this before and it was captioned with a Scandinavian country.

It is illegal to display a swastika in Germany. Even on TV, when there is a war movie or something they obscure it or leave it out entirely.

[German-Lefty]

5. That's about right

They can show the swastika in war movies and historical documentaries. You can't use it in a demostration, put it on you clothes, or hand out copies of Mein Kampf. As an American I am somewhat disturbed by these limits on freedom of speech. As German I understand there is a historical reason for it. Why can't the facists just go out and get another symbol?

This poster is an excellent example of something that should be allowed to be shown in Germany.

[WoodrowFan]

7. Fascist Symbol

They have another symbol, the fasces. Defintion: "The fasces were cylindrical bundles of wooden rods, tied tightly together, from which an axe projected." The Italism and other fascists used it as their symbol. More details at.. http://www.fmarion.edu/~dryoung/DOCTRINE_OF_FASCISM.HTM


of course, there is also the Stars n Bars...



(I'd post a pic of a fasces but I don't know how, sorry)

[alfredo]

10. Here we go

[WoodrowFan]

12. OUCH (NT)

[alfredo]

14. I think it was designed by Wolfowitz

;)

[Feanorcurufinwe]

3. Ritter makes the 9/11-Reichstag connection

Bush was like Hitler, says weapons man
By Hannah Cleaver in Berlin
(Filed: 07/05/2003)

Scott Ritter, a former United Nations weapons inspector, has compared the invasion of Iraq to Hitler's invasion of Poland.

He told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper that 130 Americans had died "for a lie", adding: "I see no difference between the invasion of Iraq and the invasion of Poland in 1939."

Both invasions were based on what he said was an artificial argument of self defence. President George W Bush had used the September 11 attacks as Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag to repress domestic dissidents.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F05%2F07%2Fwirq207.xml

[Cascadian]

4. Would make a great T shirt!

Makes sense to me!


John


P.S. If anybody has a copy of this online somewhere please let me know.

[slor]

6. Actually, right before...

the germans invaded Poland, a group of german convicts, dressed as polish soldiers "invaded" a german radio station on the border. They claimed that Poland was invading Germany. This served as the justification for Germany to attack Poland in a more immediate fashion hours later.

[ewagner]

8. Correct

good .... another person who reads/understands history.

[tuck]

9. ooooooh......

that makes me cringe....

[ShaneGR]

11. Austria

The sign above the banner.

[BiggJawn]

13. You sure? tracked it down to Helsinki

That "Skatudden Termin."

Quick google came up with Helsinki.

Unless it's "Skaludden" then I'm lost...

[acerbic]

15. Helsinki is correct

...and the picture is from the busiest street in the business/shopping part of town.