Ten pound says that yesterday, at some point, some idiot looked smugly in your direction (as though they were the only people with enough guts and education to do it) and said: “So, today it’s Hitler’s birthday…”. That’s the intro to the most boring conversation you will ever have. Sigh. Everybody knows everything about Hitler, and we can probably all agree he wasn’t the main benefactor of the 20th century. But there are some idiots out there who think he was, and who think he still is now, and they’re running neo-Nazi adventure camps for kids. Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble recently banned Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend (for non-Sausage-eaters that translates to Patriotic German Youth), and once again pictures of dishcloths with Nazi runes are all over the German newspapers. Everyone is like, “OMG, I can’t believe they made neo-Nazi summer camps for kids!” and then, “Well, thanks to Mr. Schäuble this is over now.” But the truth is that HDJ has seen this coming for a while now, and it’s just a matter of when, where, and how they’ll erect new structures to ensure the Nazi ideologies are passed on to the next generation. Or to be more precise, how long it’s going to take until they’re discovered and banned again.
