Sam English
Well-Known Member
Spot on.It was the official flag of Germany.
No big deal.
Spot on.It was the official flag of Germany.
No big deal.
I will have a look at that.His speech from 1934 describes what was happening in Germany and where we were all heading.
My point is that a lot of people will rightly heave their guts at the Swastika whilst putting the red flag on their T-shirt and deny acknowledging the hypocrisy involved.I agree with you on that but I fail to see relevance to this thread
Google it mate, you should find it ok.I will have a look at that.
Churchill was otherwise a very active columnist and wrote far and wide at home and abroad.
Unlike many contemporaries, Winston was always short of a bob or two and had to work for his corn.
I suppose for certain media outlets his words were formed to suit their readership.
Perhaps he has been misinterpreted by some who may have been keen to do so?
I will have a look at that.
Churchill was otherwise a very active columnist and wrote far and wide at home and abroad.
Unlike many contemporaries, Winston was always short of a bob or two and had to work for his corn.
I suppose for certain media outlets his words were formed to suit their readership.
Perhaps he has been misinterpreted by some who may have been keen to do so?
100%, it’s just an interesting tidbit, a lot of people are jumping to weird conclusionsOther than the fact it was at Rangers’ stadium?
It’s a bit of a non-story as it was pre WW2 and just a country’s flag but an anecdote in history, all the same.
From Wikipedia - The full name of the party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (English: National-Socialist German Workers' Party) and they officially used the acronym NSDAP. The term "Nazi" was in use before the rise of the NSDAP as a colloquial and derogatory word for a backwards farmer or peasant, characterising an awkward and clumsy person.I didn't know that it was derogatory. Nazi simply stands for national socialist, but I suppose the mood of the time was that it inferred some kind of Bolshevik movement, to the uninitiated.
Yeah you're right. I know quite a bit about the Third Riech but more relative to the academic and cultural aspects that gave rise to it. Many intellects at the time saw it as the only solution to Bolshevik revolution sweeping the continent. The belief in Volk ancestry (which was mostly fictional) and the Gleichshaltung - synchronization of society was rational to many thinkers at the time.From Wikipedia - The full name of the party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (English: National-Socialist German Workers' Party) and they officially used the acronym NSDAP. The term "Nazi" was in use before the rise of the NSDAP as a colloquial and derogatory word for a backwards farmer or peasant, characterising an awkward and clumsy person.
The thread title reads like a bead-rattler's wet dream.100%, it’s just an interesting tidbit, a lot of people are jumping to weird conclusions
Conversely it’s a thread title that got people like you and me interested.The thread title reads like a bead-rattler's wet dream.
That's why posters are irritated.
Beat me to it. I was just getting ready to post that image of the programme cover. Quite a rare programme.The Republic's football team gave the Nazi salute before a game in Bremen.
Scroll down the page.
Ireland 5 Germany 2: When Nazi salutes took over Dalymount Park
In 1936 with the Nazi Party in power, the German team was welcomed to Dublinwww.irishtimes.com
Today in the Evening Times, an article from 442 magazine was published stating that the atmosphere at Ibrox was th best in Britain. In the online comments the usual rabids were posting their comments. Surprise, surprise comments about the incident described in the OP was one of the first things posted, weird coonts.
I’ve seen it drawn on walls through the streets of Hyderabad and Bangalore on trips to India. The Swastika has been around for thousands of years. In India it’s an important symbol in Hinduism. A shame that it’s symbolism is associated with the Natzis and the horrors of that group.The swastika was used in loads of places. There’s loads of them on the war memorial outside Balmoral. It’s hard to get your head around in hindsight but nothing thought of it at the time.
As been said already it was before war broke out and it was Germanys Official Flag at the time ..... I ThinkIt was the official flag of Germany.
No big deal.
Every international team visiting Germany would have done it