Wiley Neo Nazis Use Lake To Advertise

Since it is banned in Germany, advertising the swatstika is a challenge for young Neo Nazis. As such, Muffti is begrudgingly impressed with the effort it must have taken some young punks to scrape an 8-by-5 metre swastika in a frozen lake right near a runway of Berlin’s Tegel airport. Though not visible from land, it was clearly visible from the air and offered a chilling greeting to travellers all morning.

Using the environment as a billboard is, of course, not a new idea. Not even for neo nazis. 5 years ago, a 60 by 60 metre swatstika was discovered in a forest north of Berlin. In 1937, a local businessman, an ardent follower of Adolf Hitler, planted a 60 by 60 metre area of Larch trees in a forest near the town of Zernikow, about 110 km north of Berlin. The trees were planted in the shape and format of a Swastika and could only be seen from the air. During Autumn, when the Larch trees changed their colour to orange and yellow they stood out strikingly against a green forest of surrounding pine trees. Discovered many years after the war, this long-forgotten symbol of the Nazi era was finally removed by cutting down 27 of the 57 trees that made up the Swastika design.

Water police removed the offensive symbol after a police helicopter spotted it.

Many thanks to Haaretz for providing (most of) the content of this story. Thanks to Kenny for being an ascerbic dick the man to remind us all of the perils and joys of frisking.