blood and Honor
Blood and Honor was a National Socialist catchphrase that was used, among other things, in the Hitler Youth .
The terms of blood and honor were for Alfred Rosenberg constitutive concepts of "Nordic-Germanic race soul" which he in his work The Myth of the 20th century developed. The pair of terms found their way into the thoughts of the Hitler Youth through Rosenberg's myth . Four of Rosenberg's essays published from 1936 to 1941 were entitled with the term.
As a combination of terms used in the Hitler Youth, they were familiar to numerous Germans, blood and honor was the title of a songbook, embossed in the belt lock of the Hitler Youth and between 1933 and 1938 as an inscription etched on the blade of the Hitler Youth .
In Germany, the use of the slogan “blood and honor” is legally a use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations ; it is a criminal offense. According to a ruling by the Federal Court of Justice in 2009, the use of the English translation “Blood and Honor” is not punishable.
The pair of terms is also used in translation by various neo-Nazi organizations. Blood and Honor is an international network of neo-Nazi music groups . The phrase "blood and honor" is also used in a modified form by supporters of the neo-Nazi Chrysí Avgí in Greece.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Schreckenberg: Education, living environment and war effort of the German youth under Adolf Hitler. LIT, Münster 2001. ISBN 3-8258-4433-1 . P. 20
- ↑ Heinz Schreckenberg: Education, living environment and war effort of the German youth under Adolf Hitler. LIT, Münster 2001. ISBN 3-8258-4433-1 . P. 213
- ↑ Roman Trips-Hebert: (The criminal use of marks of unconstitutional organizations - § 86a StGB as reflected in the case law) . Berlin 2009.
- ↑ faz.net August 13, 2009: Nazi slogans in a foreign language are not punishable
- ↑ BGHSt 54, pp. 61-69.
- ↑ "Greece's Golden Dawn isn't a political party - it's more like a criminal gang" guardian.co.uk of September 4, 2012
