A viral video shows people singing racist lyrics and performing Nazi salutes at a club on the northern German island of Sylt. The club has condemned the incident
Police in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein are investigating a viral social media video which appears to show a group of young people singing racist lyrics outside a bar on the island of Sylt.
“A video of people partying on Sylt is currently doing the rounds on social media,” the police said on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday morning. “We are aware of this video which is being investigated for potentially illegal content.”
The video, which appears to have been taken outside the exclusive “Pony” nightclub in the island town of Kampen last weekend, shows people dancing to Italian DJ Gigi D’Agostino’s party hit “L’amour toujours” but changing the lyrics to: “Foreigners out, foreigners out, Germany for the Germans, foreigners out.”
One guest can be seen appearing to mimick Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, gesturing a short moustache and performing a Nazi salute.
It’s also important, if you consider yourself someone who isn’t like Hitler, not to fall into the rhetoric that he wasn’t a “real German”.
Hitler considered himself a German. He fought in the German (not Austrian) army in WW1, he renounced his Austrian citizenship, and he became a naturalized German citizen in 1926, over ten years before the Anschluss.
Imagine that someone from India immigrated to the United States, became a naturalized citizen, renounced their Indian citizenship, and then some jackass says that they aren’t actually American, they are Indian, because they were born in India. That would be fucking shitty.
Hitler may be the biggest piece of shit that ever lived, but if you believe that immigrants are members of the society that they immigrate to, you shouldn’t make the argument that anyone isn’t a real citizen of the country of their citizenship because of where they were born.
I get that the original commenter is making a “by his logic” argument, but we really need to be aware of the logic we use when we criticize fascists, and not fall into the pattern of using their logic to make our arguments.