re: #70 Sol Berdinowitz

I fetched a pamphlet on the rules and regulations that cover the display of Nazi symbols in Germany.

Seems the debate was kicked off by people using them in clearly anti-Nazi propaganda, but a civil servant in Stuttgart simply said that the law is the law and a swastika is a swastika, and the latter are forbidden and actually banned the sale of anti-Nazi posters and T-shirts.

So now there is a law that clarifies that you can display them if they are clearly anti-nazi in nature.

Then some reight-wing fellow invented a brand called “Lonsdaple”

The gag here being that if you wear a Lonsdaple T-shirt with an open shirt over it, you hide the first and last two letters and leave the letters NSDAP visible…the initials of the Nazi Party.

So now there is a law that says you can wear a Lonsdaple shirt only as long as you do not wear another shirt over it in a manner that hides the first and last two letters.

No fooling.

Actually, it’s ‘LONSDALE’.

There’s another brand out there associated with the far-right in Germany, ‘Thor Steinar’. Ironically, these days it’s owned by a Dubai-based company. There’s a parody clothing label called ‘Storch Heinar’, which satirizes the ‘Nordic’ look of the original.