Germany won European Championship under21

[DirtyP2002]

fmc83 said:

Slimebeast said:

DirtyP2002 said:

The Velour Fog said:
Deutschland uber alles.

this is illegal in Germany. This was pre 1939.

lol, it is?


I thought it was a line from the German national anthem.

To get this right, it's not illegal. It's just inappropriate to use it. The "Deutschland über Alles"-verse is the first part of the Deutschlandlied and was the National Anthem from 1922-1945. Today the German National Anthem consists only of the 3rd verse of the Deutschlandlied (Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit).

For a translation and some background:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandlied

yeah Nazis used this to legitmate their claim to be over everybody else.

and it is illegal in a way:

On 7 March 1990, months before reunification, the Constitutional Court declared only the third stanza of Hoffmann von Fallersleben's poem to be protected as a national anthem under criminal law; Section 90a of the Criminal Code (Strafgesetzbuch) makes defamation of the national anthem a crime, but does not specify what the national anthem is.

That is from your quote.

But anyway: This is about the German Team, which did a impressive job yesterday. I really hope to see some of them being future stars.