Germany’s highest court has upheld a ban on three words appearing in sequence because of their link to a former anthem of the Nazi party.
The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe rejected on Thursday an appeal by a member of a far-right party who was fined 1,750 euros ($2,400) for wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “die Fahnen hoch.”
This literally translates as “the flags on high.” The court said the words, which appeared as the final part of an eight-word slogan on the shirt, were too similar to the opening line of the Nazi anthem, the Horst Wessel song.
This opens with “die Fahne hoch,” referring to a single flag. Public displays of Nazi symbols are banned in Germany.
“An observer familiar with the existence and history of the Horst Wessel song will be able to place the short text passage in a broader context,” the court said in a statement.
To ignore this would be to overlook the dangers of a revival in National Socialist tendencies, it said.
The man was originally convicted of the offence in 2007.
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It’s amazing how the destroyers of free-speech now rolling up the curtains in the USA too. Several people were detained, arrested and charged with ‘hate-crimes’, or ‘criminal threat’ which – both – are felonies. One may think this is the marxists in the NObama negro regime getting more brave and arrogant. See that the strichest anti-free speech laws introduced in Europe, now ZOG is attacking the US 1st Amendment rights.
Uprising due now world-wide against the zionist snake.