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Erik, the BFG ([personal profile] erikred) wrote2005-05-23 11:15 am
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Achtung!

Note to Gerhard Schroeder's PR people: consider, carefully, a proposal to change that backdrop. Now.

[identity profile] ctiee.livejournal.com 2005-05-23 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
What's wrong with a nice German eagle?
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[personal profile] tagryn 2005-05-23 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Dear. That's unfortunate.

To answer ctiee, there's an unfortunate but inescapable affiliation of the eagle with a previous German party:

If you get to see film from the Nuremberg rallies during the Nazi years, the eagle was very prominent in National Socialist iconology.

[identity profile] glitter-ninja.livejournal.com 2005-05-24 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
It's Naziriffic!

That may be more of a phoenix than an eagle, but it's so stylized in the head I can't really tell. Looks a little like Sam the Eagle from "The Muppet Show".
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[personal profile] tagryn 2005-06-09 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Erik - here's another unfortunate image, apparently from the Maryland mass transit system:

How very...Soviet. Right down to the woman holding the red flag, which it appears to be at first glance.