Goose stepping in Germany?

[Irongrip400]

Watching old World War One and World War Two television programs, and see the goose stepping and it made me wonder. Has it been outlawed dude to the Nazi atrocities? It seems to have been a Prussian tradition dating back for a long time, but it and other things like the totenkompf go away. Is this because people would associate it with nazism?  Also, do any of you living in Germany/Germans get pissed about east Prussia being part of Russia now?

[galain]

You don't see a lot of overt "Nazi" behaviour here because it's been made illegal. Depends a lot on where you are though. Big case going on at the moment about racially motivated killings and the police turning a blind eye to them. I know of a girl from Ghana who got bashed in a uni town in the east, and the police told her she should go home back to Africa if she was that worried about it happening again.

The far right and the easily led hide themselves in plain sight. Some kids think it's cool to walk around with '88' on their shirts (corresponds inthe alphabet to HH = Heil Hitler). There is a whole code of similar things.

Don't really know anyone pissed about Prussia but that's probably regional. A lot of these 'former' Germans get to come back to Germany with a lot of government handouts. Many of the people I learnt German with were 'Russian germans'. They certainly have a better life here than they did back home.

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Watching old World War One and World War Two television programs, and see the goose stepping and it made me wonder. Has it been outlawed dude to the Nazi atrocities? It seems to have been a Prussian tradition dating back for a long time, but it and other things like the totenkompf go away. Is this because people would associate it with nazism?  Also, do any of you living in Germany/Germans get pissed about east Prussia being part of Russia now?

I think it's time for someone to come along who can reunite Großdeutschland.

Oh, and come up with a solution to the Muslim question, a final one preferably. 

[Irongrip400]

You don't see a lot of overt "Nazi" behaviour here because it's been made illegal. Depends a lot on where you are though. Big case going on at the moment about racially motivated killings and the police turning a blind eye to them. I know of a girl from Ghana who got bashed in a uni town in the east, and the police told her she should go home back to Africa if she was that worried about it happening again.

The far right and the easily led hide themselves in plain sight. Some kids think it's cool to walk around with '88' on their shirts (corresponds inthe alphabet to HH = Heil Hitler). There is a whole code of similar things.

Don't really know anyone pissed about Prussia but that's probably regional. A lot of these 'former' Germans get to come back to Germany with a lot of government handouts. Many of the people I learnt German with were 'Russian germans'. They certainly have a better life here than they did back home.

That's kind of my point, that the goose stepping and what not was around prior to nazism. Did it just get a bad wrap because most of the western world associates it with nazis because it was recorded/televised?  I'm not trying to get involved with the politics of another country, or act pissed because they don't follow these traditions anymore, but more of a general question into the psyche of your average German. I tried talking about this stuff to two people when I was there, one of which didn't want to speak about it(got a little gunshy when I brought up the group ram stein) and the other grew up in East Germany and was more than happy to.