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submitted 11 months ago by tranarchist@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] tranarchist@lemmy.ml 76 points 11 months ago

the guy running for chancellor in Austria (Herbert Kickl) is calling himself "Volkskanzler", guess who also called himself that? fucking Hitler. so no, I don't think I'm over reacting

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 9 points 11 months ago

I'm calling myself human - you know who did that too? Fucking Ted.

[-] tranarchist@lemmy.ml 55 points 11 months ago

everyone calls themself human, not everyone calls themself Führer, Reichskanzler, Volkskanzler, etc.

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Now what is a Volkskanzler? In itself it should be a Kanzler, so a part of a democratic government, for the Volk, so the people. And I never actually heard about Hitler calling himself that, only that he was the Reichskanzler, Führer etc.

Edit:

After the end of the dictatorship, the original meaning was transferred both directly and indirectly to well-known democratic state politicians such as Ludwig Erhard and Bruno Kreisky.

So those democratic politicians are Hitlers too now?

[-] tranarchist@lemmy.ml 24 points 11 months ago

no, they aren't, because they were leftists trying to reclaim the word so they obviosly weren't nazis, the people using it nowdays are far right, so it's not really obvios wether they are nazis or not.