Flags and What's Under Them

Seventy years ago today, two things happened in Germany; the country adopted a new flag and the Nuremberg Laws went into effect.


I'm not about to post the Nazi flag on this blog; you've all seen it far too many times anyway. It's famous. The Nuremberg Laws are less famous. You ask me, the situation should be reversed.

The Nazi flag, let's face it, is sexy. It's made up of bold colors and design elements, and combined with other kinds of Nazi fetish gear, I imagine it can make any pimply-faced, gutless loser feel overwhelmingly macho in seconds. That's why the thing is still all over creation, years after the screaming junkie lunatic who invented it shot his face off in a Berlin bunker.


The Nuremberg Laws, on the other hand, represent pretty well the oozing rot that the flag tried to cover up. Those laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship and civil rights. When the nations of the world failed to notice, those laws became an important stepping stone in the path that led to the Holocaust.

The Nazi flag is fantasy. The Nuremberg Laws are reality. It figures that those sexually insecure neurotics, the Nazi party leadership, would confuse the two on this date.

Benshlomo says, The Big Lie fools the liar, too.