German court upholds ban on words with Nazi link
26 Jun 2009

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s highest court has upheld a ban on three words appearing in sequence because of their link to a former anthem of the Nazi party.

The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe rejected on Thursday an appeal by a member of a far-right party who was fined 1,750 euros ($2,400) for wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “die Fahnen hoch.”

This literally translates as “the flags on high.” The court said the words, which appeared as the final part of an eight-word slogan on the shirt, were too similar to the opening line of the Nazi anthem, the Horst Wessel song.

This opens with “die Fahne hoch,” referring to a single flag. Public displays of Nazi symbols are banned in Germany.

“An observer familiar with the existence and history of the Horst Wessel song will be able to place the short text passage in a broader context,” the court said in a statement.

To ignore this would be to overlook the dangers of a revival in National Socialist tendencies, it said.

The man was originally convicted of the offence in 2007.


DeNazification in Germany ended in the late 1940s, right? Nope. It’s still going on today [1]. Meanwhile, the opposite of Nazism, i.e., the Jewish ideology of communism, is legal in most parts of the world, even though it’s more extreme and more violent than Nazism:
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[1] DeNazification - i.e., the wiping out of all traces of Nazi culture in post-war Germany - was spearheaded by Jews. In fact, out of the 3 Marxists who wrote the DeNazification Guide for U.S. military personnel, all were Jews (Herbert Marcuse, Otto Kirchheimer and Franz Neumann). “Why would any Western government allow Jewish communists to create government policy?” is a question that is - apparently - rarely asked