""He started singing the anthem of Hitler that was back in the day," Zverev explained. "It was 'Deutschland über alles' and it was a bit too much."
The player is an idiot and doesn't even know his own country's history. Deutschlandlied where the phrase comes from was the German national anthem and predated the nazi regime. The song is actually still the anthem but only the third stanza.
And for the most part Deutschlandlied was replaced by Horst-Wessel-Lied which was the co-anthem of Nazi Germany but for all intents and purposes was the primary anthem of Germany. Only the first stanza of Deutschland would be played (the uber alles one) and then the entire Horst Wessel Lied would be played.
It even predated a unified German state, which is why it says what it does. The point is not "Germany above other peoples", but for Germans to put Germany above individual German states like Bavaria or Wuerttemberg (which I strongly oppose, but that's another matter).
Even if you wanted to sing the uber alles part, it might be "a bit much", but only because of the Frankfurt School's insane institutionalization of the German people has raped the germans ability to express pride in any aspect of their nation, because the Fabians wanted to cultivate an internationalist socialist shithole.
But I think me being German and not really proud of that history, it's not really a great thing to do, and I think him sitting in one of the front rows, I think a lot of people heard it. So if I just don't react, I think it's bad from my side.
Just typical German self-cucking, terrified of being labeled a nazi sympathizer so has to make a big performance of lashing out at even innocuous phrases if a nazi once touched them.
Well, the rotated and inverted swastika that the NSDAP used was at least a proper National Socialist symbol that they really did invent for themselves. However, considering the absolute fucking state of how most people draw swastika's, I can see the confusion.
It's nearly been 90 years, it's just some words. Unless he's going to a concentration camp with some kindling to restart the furnaces, you have WAY bigger issues to deal with than the, at most, cosplay Nazi's.
""He started singing the anthem of Hitler that was back in the day," Zverev explained. "It was 'Deutschland über alles' and it was a bit too much."
The player is an idiot and doesn't even know his own country's history. Deutschlandlied where the phrase comes from was the German national anthem and predated the nazi regime. The song is actually still the anthem but only the third stanza.
And for the most part Deutschlandlied was replaced by Horst-Wessel-Lied which was the co-anthem of Nazi Germany but for all intents and purposes was the primary anthem of Germany. Only the first stanza of Deutschland would be played (the uber alles one) and then the entire Horst Wessel Lied would be played.
It even predated a unified German state, which is why it says what it does. The point is not "Germany above other peoples", but for Germans to put Germany above individual German states like Bavaria or Wuerttemberg (which I strongly oppose, but that's another matter).
Even if you wanted to sing the uber alles part, it might be "a bit much", but only because of the Frankfurt School's insane institutionalization of the German people has raped the germans ability to express pride in any aspect of their nation, because the Fabians wanted to cultivate an internationalist socialist shithole.
It's okay to be German.
It was originally, ‘G-tt erhalte Franz den Kaiser.’
Just typical German self-cucking, terrified of being labeled a nazi sympathizer so has to make a big performance of lashing out at even innocuous phrases if a nazi once touched them.
You are saying this like these same people wouldn't consider a USA chant racist and evil too.
Well, the rotated and inverted swastika that the NSDAP used was at least a proper National Socialist symbol that they really did invent for themselves. However, considering the absolute fucking state of how most people draw swastika's, I can see the confusion.
It's nearly been 90 years, it's just some words. Unless he's going to a concentration camp with some kindling to restart the furnaces, you have WAY bigger issues to deal with than the, at most, cosplay Nazi's.
Why would that be a problem?
Nobody would have said shit if he started singing Erika.
Frankly, I bet he could have gotten away with Panzerlied because they're trained to recognize "uber alles"
Probably more exciting for the fan than watching two grown men toss a small ball back and forth.
If you know anything about Zverev... This is like, the least shit thing he has been involved in, by far...
Like, even as a casual tennis "fan", Zverev is a fucking tool, lol...
So this "controversy" seems appropriate, somehow, really...
Pretty sure he "disclaimed" his Russian side of the family (dad's), a while back, pre-Ukraine, too... So yeah.