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[-] solo@kbin.earth 120 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In one clip, Neumaier was seen singing the Nazi-era German national anthem along with ...

I find this more so much more disturbing

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

It's still the German anthem, it's not especially Nazi.

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago

Are you saying the modern German anthem is the same as the Nazi era German anthem?

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

More or less. The Deutschlandlied) is the hymn of Germany since before the Nazi era, wasn't changed by the Nazis and still is today. But today only the third stanza is officially the hymn. However, people often sing the first one, which is the most well known.

During the Nazi era, there were a second hymn, which is more directly linked to this ideology.

[-] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 56 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

However, people often sing the first one

Correction: Nazis - and only nazis - often sing the first one.

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Are you sure? I may be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time, but I have the impression that people sing easily “Deutschland über alles”.

(For context, I never lived in Germany, but always near the border, so I have sometimes a distorted vision of what occurs there)

[-] theonyltruemupf@feddit.de 37 points 5 months ago

The first stanza is not officially banned but it's only really sung by nazis or edgy teenagers.

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

Okay, thank you both for the correction !

[-] stringere@leminal.space 6 points 5 months ago

Wow, it is refreshing to see someone recognize being mistaken, accept the correction, and be thankful to have learned something, so thank you as well.

[-] words_number@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Or maybe by old people accidentally because they learned it from their parents as the normal anthem when they were children.

[-] Opafi@feddit.de 16 points 5 months ago

but I have the impression that people sing easily “Deutschland über alles”.

What the fuck?

Dude, please connect to some Germans that aren't Nazis.

[-] solo@kbin.earth 7 points 5 months ago

The "Horst-Wessel-Lied", also known by its opening words "Die Fahne hoch", was the anthem of the Nazi Party from 1930 to 1945. From 1933 to 1945, the Nazis made it the de-facto co-national anthem of Nazi Germany, along with the first stanza of the "Deutschlandlied". The "Horst-Wessel-Lied" has been banned in Germany and Austria since the end of World War II.

wiki

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Yes. But this politician sang the Deutschlandlied, not the Horst-Wessel-Lied.

[-] solo@kbin.earth 3 points 5 months ago

But this politician sang the Deutschlandlied

Not too sure where this info comes from?

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I unfortunately saw the video on a shady French site when I searched for his name (here; you can click, but it's not very interesting and you'll have visited an alt-right website).

[-] solo@kbin.earth 4 points 5 months ago

Ok I now see what you mean. Thanks for the link, unfortunately for some reason the video doesn't play for me so I can't hear it. Still in the article you linked they say he sung the nazi-era Deutschlandlied version, which includes the 2 first verses. The current version has only the third one.

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah I thought that the first stanza, while not official, was still often sung by normal people and not just by Nazis. Looks like I was wrong 😅

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