Guernica today, Nazism, today and tomorrow
The national anthem raises the demand for a homeland-unity, the "happiness" promises. Under Wilhelm II and Hitler, the militaristic and dictatorial backed Homeland unity leads straight to disaster. In the Weimar Republic, it was, and in West Germany after the reunification of West and Central Germany, without East Germany, is the patriotic unity in secret based on the recovery of lost territories. Therefore it contains, "From the Meuse ..." with the text of the first verse of the song, Germany in the background, a revisionist component, reverse the nationalist violence of conquest port and youth astray. Instead of waiting for negotiation options violence imagination is planted.
Another patriotic unity is it does not. They contradict democracy and constitution. For example, the fever, the team spirit of a nation to win the final of a World Cup, no patriotic unity, but simply a national football fever. It is patriotic unity with existential threats to the country. Since it is not that inherent threat since Napoleon was, the agreement referred to constantly attack options against other countries.
The consensus of a democratic constitution or civil laws are a patriotic unity even in the ways in which national parties think. Each held up "patriotic union" referring to former German regions should, with democratically taken decisions and state contracts break to allow force solutions. Those who read right sites must recognize that there have been theoretical so far.
The national anthem is a demand and therefore does speak a Ver. 1870/71 the promise of happiness led to a partial success, a victory over the French. At the same time German arrogance was born. The colonialist backlog resulted in then South West Africa established to slaughter people. German domination demeanor showed patriotic unity among their first inhuman facial features.
then showed the international law extinguishing the small town of Guernica, to which uncritical patriotic unity was capable. The national happiness under the Nazis did not tolerate criticism. The show of force for training purposes on 26 April 1937 by German fighter aircraft of the Condor Legion, led by Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, left ruins and murdered civilians. In the end, saw German cities themselves.
first German resistance, most recently by Baron von Stauffenberg, broke with the consensus. He had become a "public enemy" in order to save Germany. "I accept," he said.
Subliminal and unteachable patriotic unity after 1945 led to a displacement of guilt and shameful crimes and caused a generational conflict, the German "Autumn". The Nuremberg war crimes sentences were not recognized until now. Instead, neo-Nazism comes up to write the patriotic unity on the flags again. The seemingly harmless name in the national anthem of youth leads directly into the fatal ideas.
founded with a single word to the national anthem, why Germany might possibly be lovable, if the country has cultural values, or whether any worthwhile form of harmless love of country would. In this, the German national anthem is different from almost all other other nations around the globe.
to sing this national anthem, which was developed by Helmut Kohl and Richard von Weizsacker dictated from above, I can not move ten horses. Federal President Köhler wants it differently: he has recently preferred the 1000-voice mass choir, as the recent opening of the athletics World Championships, the national feeling Duselei without regard to the text - to encourage - or perhaps because of the text. I think, just because.
The beautiful melody, resulting from the 1797 Austrian Kaiser lyrics borrowed from Joseph Haydn, a different, more clear and unambiguous text deserved better, smarter Germany another president. The current text as a vestige of the Germany-song is ripped from a historical context and therefore was pure kitsch with a national aggression potential. Köhler and neo-Nazis love him and apparently himself, Germany hardly comfortable.
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