https://anotherangryvoice.substack.com/p/young-tories-nazi-marching-song
With a huge election defeat looming this depravity is a reminder that the Tory party is rotten to the core.
Another Angry Voice
Jun 30, 2024

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What kind of person learns the words to a Nazi marching song, and sings along with it? That’s what the Young Conservatives at Warwick University were doing in the midst of a pivotal general election campaign.

The excuses are coming thick and fast. Apparently the song is popular because of its use in a computer game called Hell Let Loose, but in that game it’s clearly and unequivocally associated with Nazi Germany.

Even if it has been popularised by a computer game where players role play as Nazis, it’s difficult to explain why it’s being played at a Tory disco, and why so many of them know the words well enough to sing along.

The moment at the end of the clip where someone says "don’t film" demonstrates that they know perfectly well that they’re doing something outrageous, especially since Warwick University is based in the outskirts of Coventry, a city destroyed by the Luftwaffe during WWII.

Another attempted excuse goes along the lines of "didn’t you get drunk and do stupid things at university". Of course many of us did, but I certainly never sang along with a Nazi marching song in a city that was raised to the ground by Nazi bombers!

Another excuse points to the lyrics about honey bees and heather, but pointing out that it doesn’t call for the conquest of Europe or the extermination of Jews is akin to judging Adolf Hitler by the standard of his painting, rather than the barbarity of the regime he created. Sometimes art is inseparable from its context, and especially so when it comes to the most popular Nazi marching song during WWII.

We’ve been here before with the Tory party. Back in 2018 the depravity of Young Conservatives in Plymouth was photographed. A white power gesture, T-shirts scrawled with slogans like "fuck the NHS", and one of them sporting a Hitler moustache.

Back in the 1980s Young Conservatives, several of whom went on to become senior Tory politicians, wore "Hang Mandela" T-shirts and did stuff like burn money in front of homeless people. Is this really the cesspit we want to continue drawing our future leaders from?