They are wearing stahlhelms again and doing torchlit parades in front of the leader. Do they not know this is a very bad aesthetic for them, does the Red Army need to roll into Berlin again since they obviously didn't learn their lesson from last time.

    • Comrade_Crab [any]
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      3 years ago

      This particular one "only" comes from Prussian militarism via the Nazis

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      If only it was just the military traditions they got from the nazis...

    • GrafZahl [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Which one of their traditions comes from the Nazis?

      • BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Easy one: the version of the grand tattoo performed in “reunified” germany removes the section from the DDR version that honored the victims of fascism and militarism.

        There was a whole part focused on everyone who died during the first German Communist revolutions of 1918-19, the Nazi regime, and the subsequent resistance during WW2.

        Also, if your cultural military traditions have been co-opted by the textbook embodiment of evil, just drop them.

        There’s a whole “traditionless” movement for the military in Germany because of the increase in “clean Wehrmacht” neo-nazis that showed up when Germany started accepting Syrian refugees.

          • BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Good luck!

            I don't understand what your response means, are you saying "good luck in removing nazi traditions"? Because like... yeah, that's the whole point.