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To: GingisK
Gee, I didn’t know ships could adopt political ideologies.

This one did, having been named Horst Wessel. The ship's namesake was a Nazi activist who was fatally shot by Communists in 1930.

The Nazis decided to turn him into a hero and a martyr, and a song that he wrote that became known as the Das Marschlied von Horst Wessel (the Horst Wessel marching song) became the party's theme song.

36 posted on 07/29/2015 8:23:21 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill
This one did, having been named Horst Wessel.

No, the ship itself was not a NAZI. Who built it is totally immaterial. It is a vessel in the service of our Nation at the Coast Guard Academy. This is the same stupid stuff as the Confederate flag flap.

By the way, The United States took German Type 21 submarines into our fleet after WWII. They were the best subs we ever had until the nuclear fleet emerged.

47 posted on 07/29/2015 8:43:33 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Fiji Hill
This one did, having been named Horst Wessel.

I can't get over this! Do you think that an inanimate object actually adopted NAZI political views?

Insanity runs deep in the United States.

49 posted on 07/29/2015 8:48:28 AM PDT by GingisK
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