Lot of ppl including non-Germans Actually!-ing that "Deutschland Deutschland Uber Alles" isn't actually banned & wasn't written by the Nazis
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Ok but Hitler really liked it and it has a v negative association and the whole Nazi thing is a sore point given current politics
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Can't imagine what it must be like for German citizens to see Third Reich playactors extend their influence all the way to the White House
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Anyway Nazis in particular aside it's also Problematic bc it says Germany's reach extends quite a bit farther than IRL it currently does
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In terms of anthem fuckups this still ranks below the time a Kazakh athlete was welcomed with the parody anthem from Borat
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Fun fact: Nietzsche, himself, said he felt the phrase "Deutschland Uber Alles" was "the death of German philosophy"
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Nietzsche was not a patriotic German, detested German nationalism and thought if the Ubermensch existed he wouldn't be German
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His sister was a German nationalist though and heavily edited his work to make it palatable to the Nazi movement
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