The day the swastika flew at Ibrox

His speech from 1934 describes what was happening in Germany and where we were all heading.
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?
Google it mate, you should find it ok.
It's not a long speech, but he was bang on with it.
 
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?
Try this mate. Not sure if I've got it right, as I'm no tech expert
 
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.
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.
 
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.
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.

The common man in the street and remnants of the Weimar Republic bourgeois probably thought of them as bafoons, but the academics and creative industries were blinded by this new futurism concept (which you could probably blame on Nietschze).
 
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.
 
The thread title reads like a bead-rattler's wet dream.

That's why posters are irritated.
Conversely it’s a thread title that got people like you and me interested.

celtic fans can’t get excited about a thread title when the story behind it is explained
 
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.
 
When England played Germany in the 30s the English FA insisted their players give the Nazi salute to Hitler as a mark of respect to their hosts! I have read that the players were very unhappy about this but were told forcefully that failure to comply would not be viewed well both by their hosts and the FA.
 
Fascinating fact thanks OP.
Watched a really good world war 1 film the other night called "1917" , loved learning about the world wars and northern Ireland at school
 
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.

Sad, obsessed cretins. Apart from anything else, it was a Scotland game so the SFA were in charge. The German team moved on to Dublin....
 
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.
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.
 
Every international team visiting Germany would have done it
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