A video filmed in a nightclub is circulating on German social media, where young people partying shout a neo-Nazi slogan and one makes a Nazi salute.
A young woman looks euphorically into the camera and sings “Germany for the Germans”. All around, a group of well-dressed young revelers accompany and continue “foreigners out, foreigners out, ti-ti-di-di, ti-ti-di-di…”. One person raises a hand in a Nazi salute.
One of the most famous club hits of the 2000s plays in the background, by Gigi D’Agostino “L’Amour Toujours”.
A video filmed at an elite club on the island of Sylt in the northern parts of Germany has been circulating on German social media this week and has caused a minor uproar.
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The video has been reported by several German media, and even the chancellor of the country commented on it Olaf Scholz.
– Such slogans are disgusting and cannot be accepted, Scholz wrote in X.
“Germany for Germans, foreigners out” is a traditional slogan used by neo-Nazis.
The fear is that the slogan will go mainstream to the tune of D’Agostino’s club hit. This is not the first case when extreme right-wing slogans are sung over the party song in question.
Already in January, a weekly magazine Stern wrote, that the extreme right has hijacked a party song about love as its anthem. You don’t even need to sing Nazi slogans anymore, because all right-wingers understand what the song’s iconic synth chorus is referring to.
At the same time, the song is a way to make the thinking of the extreme right more accessible to young people, he writes Bavarian Broadcasting (BR).
– Young people do not necessarily understand the seriousness of the matter, director of the Bavarian Political Education Center Rupert Grupl says to BR.
According to Grupl, they may think it’s just a joke. At the same time, however, the language and thinking used by the extreme right become more acceptable and certain taboos are broken.
The extreme right has used similar tactics before. Perhaps the most famous symbol hijacked by the extreme right is Pepe the frog, which has upset the cartoon artist who created it.
In Germany, Nazism is taken very seriously because of the country’s history. Dictator Adolf Hitler under the leadership of Nazi Germany murdered millions of Jews and people belonging to other minorities and started World War II. Several symbols and slogans of the extreme right have therefore been banned in the country.
There has also been a legal battle against the recent party shouting phenomenon. Four people shouting the slogan “Germany for Germans, foreigners out” are accused of inciting against a national group. They participated in the after-party of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party’s meeting.
The rise in popularity of the AfD party was discussed last fall in the Uutispodcast: