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This can't be real holy shit - the fucking reddit watermark and everythinf
question: was it just the general "splash a bunch of faces on there" or did it like, make you look like you were doing an ahegao mouth? the latter would be pretty creative tbh
Erika was a popular WW2 German marching song about a type of flower that also doubles as a woman’s name. It’s gotten a bit of popularity because it’s been included in several video games. Internet Nazis probably boosted it to make memes and here we are now
It’s gotten a bit of popularity because it’s been included in several video games
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Just gotta say, there's actually a lot of scholarship about how referring to everything German during WWII as "Nazi" is actually a way to divorce "Nazi" Germany from Germany in general. The Nazis were, well, German, and it was Germany, not just "the Nazis" that invaded Europe and committed the Holocaust. Nazi Germany should be seen as a continuum with Imperial Germany and the post war West German state, not some fundamental break. Often using Nazi and other verbage helps to obscure the fact that it was Germans and the German state, not some amophorus group of "Nazis," that did these horrible acts.
EDIT: You'll often see the result of this kind of language when people say shit like "Yeah the Nazis were bad but the German Army wasn't all Nazis so they're actually cool, the SS did bad stuff but the average German soldier was just a good patriot." They feel comfortable saying these things because Nazi is bad but these guys weren't "Nazis" so they can actually be good when they're slaughtering Roma and Jews and Slavs. It's important to normalize that it wasn't "the Nazis" alone responsible for the atrocities of WWII in Europe, but Germany and the Germans who lived in it (amongst others of course).
Hey hey now. Every nation in Europe contributed to the SS. Volunteers, not conscripts. Several nations didn't even wait for that and raised their own forces to be used for oppression and genocide. Serbia, Hungary, Romania, Finland, Slovakia, the list goes on. Let's not let them pretend that "ze Churmans" did it all and let them off scot-free.
Between Soviet withdrawal and the Axis advance, several towns and cities in the Baltic states and Ukraine found the time to hold pogroms of their own initiative.
Post Scriptum and Hell Let Loose off the top of my head. I think another but those are what I’m familiar with
"meet me outside of school plz"
Shouldn't he be playing Fortnite or some shit why is making Nazi invitation cards :doomjak:
Hearts of Iron 4 players and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
To add to what Bunhead said, large part of it's popularity lies in the fact that by surface level text alone it's a song about a flower and your girl back home, which obviously is a great excuse for nazis to use it a lot because you can't take offense to that, and then obviously all the misguided gamer teens playing some sort of WW2-Game got on board with it, including the whole "wow you really see nazis everywhere, it's a song about a flower smh" stuff.
It is also catchy, truth be told.