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Murdered by Words
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Nazi: But why skulls, though?
Hans: What?
N: Why skulls?
H: Well, maybe they're the skulls of our enemies.
N: Maybe, but is that how it comes across? It doesn't say next to the skull, you know, "Yeah, we killed him but trust us, this guy was horrid."
H: Well, no, but...
N: I mean, what skulls make you think of? Death, cannibals, beheading, erm pirates?
H: Pirates are fun!
N: I didn't say we weren't fun, but fun or not, pirates are still the baddies. I just can't think of anything good about a skull.
H: What about pure Aryan skull shape?
N: Even that is more usually depicted with the skin still on, whereas the allies-"
H: You haven't been listening to ally propaganda. Of course they're going to say we're bad guys.
N: But they didn't get to design our uniforms and their symbols are all, you know, quite nice, stars, stripes, lions, sickles.
H: What's so good about a sickle?
N: Well, nothing, and if there's one thing we've learnt in 1,000 miles of retreat, it's that Russian agriculture's in dire need of mechanisation.
H: Tell me about it.
N: You've got to say it's better than a skull. I really can't think of anything worse as a symbol than a skull.
H: A rat's anus?
N: Yeah, and if we were fighting an army, marching under the banner of a rat's anus I'd probably be a lot less worried, Hans.
Edit: thanks to ltxrtquq for the corrections.
I mean, its a comedy sketch. But it should be noted that this is exactly what the Germans were saying of their victims in the 1930s and 40s.
Might also be worth noting that, for all the shit German Nazis (justifiably) get, the English and the French and the Americans and Chinese and Turks and the various Eastern European powers were also engaged in these horrifying industrialized holocausts within their own spheres of influence. And they were also insisting the genocides of American Native Peoples, Hindu Nationalists, assorted African and Middle Eastern Nationalists, Koreans, Filipinos, Communist and Socialist civil reformers and union organizers, Jews, Roma, Disabled Peoples, and anyone else who didn't fit their trending eugenics theories were justified because the people being killed were "horrid".
Germany and Japan (and Italy kinda when they didn't suck at it) just polarized the politics of industrial genocide in an effort to build fresh new empires over the carcasses of the old Colonial Powers. And that's what had The Allies so upset. They were generally fine with The Holocausts within Germany and Japan, so long as they stayed on their own sides of the imaginary lines.
Makes me think of Eddie Izzard's bit on this:
Izzard's delivery of that segment is superb.
I mean all Izzard's delivery is gold, but that "the stupid man" bit is magic.
I love his delivery about how Hitler dying in a ditch covered in patrol and on fire is funny. Hits so perfectly within the modern context of the latest rekindling of neonazi parties
There are quite a few mistakes in your transcription there, from not attributing the quotes to the right people to not using the correct words
Thanks for the feedback. I pulled it from a transcript and cleaned it up as best I could from memory. If you'd like to suggest some edits, I'd be happy to make the relevant changes.
Thanks! Hopefully it's good now.