My favorite band Rammstein has been in the news recently. Their music video for the song "Deutschland" portrayed parts of German history, including the Holocaust, and people automatically assumed they were Nazis.
I wish I could say I did Nazi these accusations coming, but this isn't the first time Rammstein has been accused of Nazism. People assume that because they're German and have a militaristic aesthetic and sound that they must be Nazis. People have also accused them of being Nazis because their lead singer Till Lindemann rolls his r's, and Adolf Hitler also rolled his r's (by that logic, all Austrians and people from southeast Germany are Nazis).
But anyone who actually knows the band knows that this could not be further from the truth. Their song "Links 2 3 4" is pretty clearly anti-Nazi. One of the rules for being part of their official fan club is to avoid spreading "right-wing extremism" in the online forums. Till Lindemann said, when asked by his daughter if he was part of a Nazi band, that he may have gone too far with his imagery and lyrics (and this is coming from a guy who does A LOT of controversial stuff). So these guys definitely aren't Nazis. If they were, I wouldn't be listening to them.
But apparently doing anything that even remotely resembles what the Nazis did, makes one a Nazi. Next thing we know, people will call them Nazis because they breathe, and Hitler also breathed.
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