Originally published at: Arizona State Senator cheers with Nazi standard - Boing Boing
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“This comment would have been career-ending for a politician twenty years ago…”
While I love Rachel Maddow’s podcast Ultra, it’s taught me that the above is not necessarily true.
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Her 2023 book Prequel also went into exhaustive detail about how many American politicians and public figures were unashamedly pro-Nazi back in the 1930s and 1940s before the war pushed them into the closet.
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(checks notes) Says here the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Has anyone checked with Wendy to see what she thinks?
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I’m reminded of the scene in Dr Strangelove, where Seller’s character is trying to resist the Nazi salute but in the end he is overcome.
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The U.S. had a good 70-year run of Nazis being bad guys and stock villains in popular culture. That ended in 2015. Now we’re all saying…
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Stay classy (southern) Flagstaff.
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The Deutschland über alles lyrics technically aren’t “banned”. We Germans just don’t use them any longer, and frown on people who do.
When Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the Lied der Deutschen (Song of the Germans) in 1841, Germany as we know it today didn’t exist. The country was a huge conglomerate of larger and smaller kingdoms, principalities and lesser polities, and in that context the initial line Deutschland über alles meant that the liberal revolutionaries Hoffmann was addressing should prioritise a unified Germany over the independence of all these smaller states. It only later acquired the interpretation favoured by the Nazis that Germany should dominate the rest of the world.
Hoffmann’s song became the German national anthem in 1922 (during the Weimar republic) at the instigation of the Social Democrat president, Friedrich Ebert. The Nazis liked the first stanza (the one starting with Deutschland, Deutschland über alles) and used it as an introduction to the SA Horst-Wessel-Lied. After the Federal Republic of Germany had been founded in 1949 there was no national anthem for a number of years, until chancellor Konrad Adenauer suggested to president Theodor Heuss that the Song of the Germans should be reinstated as the national anthem, with just the third stanza, extolling “unity, justice, and freedom”, being sung on official occasions. This was made official in 1952, and in 1991 president Richard von Weizsäcker declared that the German national anthem consists of only the third stanza of the song, not the first two.
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I was watching Andy Griffith tonight, Barney bought a war surplus motorcycle and wreaking havoc on Mayberry.
Aunt Bea had a solution…
Her delivery was awesome. Just hearing her say nazi was something else.
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I knew it had to be Wendy when I read the headline. I’m an Arizona resident and I can confirm Arizona has, sadly more, than it’s fair share of Nazis and extreme far right nutjobs. Finchem, Biggs, and Paul “Is it safe?” Gosar (retired dentist).
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From the way she tells that story, there’s a good chance Aunt Bea was in the OSS during the war. Probably worked alongside Julia Child, which is also how she ended up the best cook in Mayberry.
“A war picture”. Sure, that’s where she saw that happen…
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Like 80+ year old Christopher Lee giving Peter Jackson tips on how to stab someone to death that he claims he didn’t learn in the SAS. 
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Nazi theme music?
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And no one is surprised
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A Confederate Nazi.
She’s built a national following as she rants about election conspiracies and George Soros and the cabal of Jews, journalists, political elites and other nefarious characters who plot to create a New World Order.
Rogers has called Robert E. Lee a “great patriot” and openly longed for the days of Sen. Joe McCarthy, the 1950s era witch hunter who ruined thousands of lives with unproven accusations that they were communists.
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