Nazi Science Lives On

[Joe Allonby]

Experience tangential to the "88" thing. In the early nineties I was
bouncing in a club that put on a lot of hardcore punk shows. One night
before work, I snapped the laces in my Doc Martens. The only laces I
had on hand were white sneaker laces. So I put them in the boots and
went to work. I got some strange commentssuch as "Didn't know you were
down with us." and "Good to see it, brother." This was especially
disturbing because it was coming from the very people whose
anti-social behavior I was supposedly there to deter.

After several days of strange comments, I asked a friend if he knew what was up.

"Your head's shaved and you have white laces in Doc Marten boots. They
think you're White Power too."

"What's the opposite?"

"Put red laces in the boots and they'll never speak to you again."

I went straight to the CVS and bought red boot laces.


On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> On 12.01.2011 10:47, Dave Monroe wrote:
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>> http://naziscienceliveson.devhub.com/
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> What's darkly comical about that NYT headline ("88 German Scientists Reach
> Here, Reputedly With
> Top War Secrets") from 11/17/45, is the fact that right after the Third
> Reich's downfall the number
> "88" became a code which is still very common in Germany and also other
> parts of the world. The
> number 88 stands for "Heil Hitler!". Why? Well, the "H" is letter numero
> eight in the alphabet. So if
> you'll ever spend some time in Germany as a foreigner, I'd advise you to
> avoid pubs or such which
> have the number 88 in their name ... otherwise it could happen that you'll
> find yourself surrounded
> by Neo-Nazis prepared to crush your teeth or worse. In any case I would
> throw away all sweaters,
> T-shirts usw that have that number printed on them. If not, you're sending
> out Neo-Nazi signals ...
> Talking about Nazi code after the downfall: Winifred Wagner - check out the
> Syberberg movie - said
> in an interview that the Wagner Clan was making fun of the new authorities
> by decoding USA as
> "Unser Seliger Adolf" (Our Blissful Adolf). When she told this she couldn't
> stop herself from lol ...
>
> Not funny by any standards of political correctness, but most certainly
> pynchonesque.
>
> KFL
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