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Enjoyed it, but saw things spray painted of pedestrian underpasses that let me know nazis were alive and well even back then.I haven't gotten around much since the mid 90s, did not remember them from my time in Germany and I did not read German much then, except for road signs and menus. I was in and out tobak shops, but no shisha or hookah bars.Those bars are everywhere.
I live there. Times have changed.
Did you ever try to paint a "Hakenkreuz" (a swastika). You did, isn't it? Why?
Made me wonder about my intelligence walking about alone at night.
The war of the sprayers from the left and right political spectrum shows only one thing: A lack of intelligence, creativity and aesthetics. Damn: this are three things. Difficult to paint in one word only.
No, not a spray painter of swastikas or anything else except lawn chairs or swings, if I get to it before my wife has me unloading new ones.
What struck me back then was the setting. We all know what bad neighborhoods look like here and avoid when possible. When walking down narrow, sometimes cobblestone streets of a small village with well tended terracotta roofed picturesque buildings, no litter in the village street after leaving a small German pub full of friendly half drunk Germans, you forget that you really don't know much about where you are or what kind of people you are moving about (on you own) through. See the swastika and death threats under an underpass were chilling. You can't understand many of the words and sometime symbols, but like looking at innocent snake on a creek bank vs a pit viper, you immediately know the difference, look around, pull the coat a little tighter and keep moving toward the light up ahead, thinking what the fk was I thinking, coming this way by myself, this time of night.
I don't have any idea what to do with this words. You seem to think the swastika was made from the Nazis, but indeed the swastika was destroyed from the Nazis. Hitler positioned it on an edge to show dynamics - and he associated it with burning wheels rolling unstoppably down from the mountains, while bringing fire to the valleys, which burns down everything. Before the Nazis destroyed this symbol with their hate and aggressions it was just simple a symbol for friendship.
And as far as I know everyone tried in his life to paint a "correct" swastika. That's a kind of call character of this symbol on its own: it produces curiosity.
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