German police investigate 'racist' video on vacation island

A viral video shows people singing racist lyrics and performing Nazi salutes at a club on the northern German island of Sylt. The club has condemned the incident

Police in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein are investigating a viral social media video which appears to show a group of young people singing racist lyrics outside a bar on the island of Sylt.

“A video of people partying on Sylt is currently doing the rounds on social media,” the police said on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday morning. “We are aware of this video which is being investigated for potentially illegal content.”

The video, which appears to have been taken outside the exclusive “Pony” nightclub in the island town of Kampen last weekend, shows people dancing to Italian DJ Gigi D’Agostino’s party hit “L’amour toujours” but changing the lyrics to: “Foreigners out, foreigners out, Germany for the Germans, foreigners out.”

One guest can be seen appearing to mimick Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, gesturing a short moustache and performing a Nazi salute.

electric_nan,

These people gonna face less consequences than people protesting against Israel in Germany.

Raylon,

Maybe, but at least 4 people in the video have lost their jobs over this, so it has at least some consequences.

ParabolicMotion,

So they adorned Hitler mustaches, as the article claims, but chanted “foreigners out” and “Germany for the Germans?” That doesn’t make sense when you really think about it. Hitler was a foreigner from Austria.

todd_bonzalez,

Yeah, that’s definitely the #1 thing wrong with Nazism: the inconsistency.

DragonTypeWyvern,

Hitler was very famously known for claiming Austria wasn’t Germany!

todd_bonzalez, (edited )

It’s also important, if you consider yourself someone who isn’t like Hitler, not to fall into the rhetoric that he wasn’t a “real German”.

Hitler considered himself a German. He fought in the German (not Austrian) army in WW1, he renounced his Austrian citizenship, and he became a naturalized German citizen in 1926, over ten years before the Anschluss.

Imagine that someone from India immigrated to the United States, became a naturalized citizen, renounced their Indian citizenship, and then some jackass says that they aren’t actually American, they are Indian, because they were born in India. That would be fucking shitty.

Hitler may be the biggest piece of shit that ever lived, but if you believe that immigrants are members of the society that they immigrate to, you shouldn’t make the argument that anyone isn’t a real citizen of the country of their citizenship because of where they were born.

I get that the original commenter is making a “by his logic” argument, but we really need to be aware of the logic we use when we criticize fascists, and not fall into the pattern of using their logic to make our arguments.

febra,

Not only that but a major AfD politician publicly said that not all SS officers were bad people. That was a few days ago. This country is going to crap

Mrkawfee,

Woops Germany your mask is slipping

Mrs_deWinter,

This idea of “actually, all Germans secretly think this way” is a common excuse of modern day Nazis to justify their increasingly brazen behaviour in public. Just so you know whose talking points you’re reproducing here.

Mrkawfee,

Well the inexorable rise of the AfD suggests this is not a niche viewpoint

Archelon,

Come on, Germany, last time you did this you went from the most powerful country in Europe to the 5th-most powerful country in Berlin.

Sibbo,

I don’t see how this is world news, in less public settings this happens all the time over here.

GenEcon,

Its news because it happened in a public setting. Neonazis are less afraid than ever to show their true face even on social media.

Treczoks,

In the US, this might be the new normal. In Germany, though, this is still verboten.

Stovetop,

White people in former colonial power that committed genocide being racist? Color me shocked!

GenEcon, (edited )

In comparison to other countries far right positions are far less common. The post-war generation really changed the society. For example the far right AFD has less than 15 % of public votes (compared to ~30 % in other European countries) and racism – while present – is far less common than for example in China, Russia, US or Japan.

Its not perfect, but the fact that people shouting far right phrases making national news, shows that the german society hasn’t shifted as far to the right as other countries.

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