Rupert Murdoch's The Sun scrapes the absolute bottom of the 'Nazi Outrage!' barrel with this story of some idiotic British tourist seeing swastikas in a pane of glass in a German hotel, and kicking up a shitstorm over it.
The pane of glass :
This is nothing more than cheap media exploitation of the horrific memories of those who suffered and lost friends and entire families under Nazi Party rule, invasion and occupation.
There's something really sick and sadistic and, dare I say it, Nazi-like in the way the British and American tabloid media, in particular, refuse to allow the youth of Germany to move beyond the outrages committed by their grandparents, and great-grandparents.
The Nazis misappropriated an ancient symbol of peace when they imprinted their hatred upon the swastika symbol. It's beyond time to free this symbol of its recent dark past, and the best way to start is by not freaking out every time a swastika appears.
Even in Germany.
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