MP allegedly greeted a party colleague at German parliament building ‘with a heel click and a Hitler salute’
Berlin prosecutors say they have charged a member of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party with making a Nazi salute in parliament.
The suspect allegedly “greeted a party colleague … at the east entrance to the Reichstag building with a heel click and a Hitler salute” in June 2023, the prosecutors said in a statement issued on Monday.
Making such a salute is illegal in Germany and is punishable by up to three years in prison.
The newspaper Bild named the politician as Matthias Moosdorf, 60, a member of parliament for Zwickau in the former East German state of Saxony.
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He got charged… Meaning it’s not ok and illegal
Yeah, but the political party this one person comes from (and exemplifies) is gaining ground rapidly in the German government.
Maybe then the problem is the people?
That’s how I took it when they said “Good job Germany.”
I always find this amusing. When people say things like “Get it together, Country!” or ,“What’s going on with Country?”, the country becomes this amorphous thing vs a culmination of it’s population.
It’s always those you suspect the most
Should be punishable by firing squad.
They forgot they’re not at home.
He was stupid enough to show it. The rest of that pack is not a iota better.
They don’t charge you for doing the hitler salute in 'merica no more. Some glorify it.
As they did last time
Sauce https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/nazi-town-usa-scenes-summer-camp-nazi-town-us/
No good comes from this. This is the equivalent threatening or intending for violence.
And yet, I’m told by another user, a free speech absolutist, that this is absolutely normal and should be protected.
this is absolutely normal and should be protected
I mean, to take a line from Inglorious Bastards
I ‘magine you’re gonna take off that handsome-lookin’ S.S. uniform of yours, ain’tcha?.. That’s what I thought. Now that I can’t abide… I mean, if I had my way… you’d wear that goddamn uniform for the rest of your pecker-suckin’ life.
I much prefer the Nazis who are wearing their beliefs on their sleeves.
Only problem is that they don’t ever come out of the woodwork until they’ve got safety in numbers.
The problem Germany has in the modern day isn’t a bunch of schlubs throwing up Nazi salutes. Its the much larger pool of industrial and media insiders who have goaded them into it, financed their little fascist friend-groups, and sponsored them to seize power to the benefit of the far-right plutocracy.
Liberals panick when they see the former, but they’re constantly trying to win over the latter. You can’t clean your house of insects if you keep trying to make friends with the Queen Bee.
Why does it take in excess of 2 years to trial someone? Broken system
You can have a fair and equitable court system, or you can have a fast one; rarely if ever both. True justice tends to be slow and steady and helps to account for public witch-hunts and reduce risk of someone innocent being wrongfully convicted. People always say, “Yeah well this one is obvious!” but that’s not how justice works. It must be absolute. It must be there for the lowest of hanging fruit if it is to be there for the more nuanced cases just the same.
On the other hand, sadly, a slow and unfair one are not mutually-exclusive.
Worrying that, for those sans a fucking morel compass/shred of intelligence, the human meme memory for this shit might just be ~75 years…
‘Lebenslüge’, the myth that German racism began and ended with the Holocaust
You can’t re-nazify if you never de-nazified to begin with. Nazis were rebranded and re-incorporated into the new East and West German governments practically before the smoke was clear. While the Russians were quick to round up and execute more Nazis than their ratline-loving Capitalist peers, both governments’ police services were thick with former Wauffen SS officers by the turn of the decade.
We had Hitler’s Chief of Staff running NATO, ffs.
Despite his extensive knowledge and participation in war crimes, he later became a general for West Germany and served as head of the West German military from 1957 to 1961 as well as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1961 to 1964.
