"STOP COMPLAINING
AS LONG AS WE DO WHAT THEY TELL US TO, EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE FINE
GERMANY 1943"
#ToponymEuropeGermany
#1943_
Context "On 8 March, a resident of Ghent posted a meme (a visual internet joke - Ed.) on his Facebook page to express his dissatisfaction with the coronavirus measures. The meme features the text: 'Stop whining: as long as we do what we're told, everything will be fine.' This ironic text contrasts with a photo of people standing against a wall. According to the meme, the photo depicts 'Germany in 1943.'
Fact check: no, meme opposing coronavirus measures does not show Germany in 1943 ...
Opponents of coronavirus measures frequently draw comparisons to the atrocities of Nazism. Students in Germany protesting against measures such as mandatory face masks compared themselves to Anne Frank--the Jewish girl who kept a diary while in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands--and to Sophie Scholl, a student executed in 1943 for her resistance against the Nazi regime.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas responded to this with a tweet: 'Anyone who compares themselves to Sophie Scholl or Anne Frank today mocks the courage it took to take a stand against the Nazis. This trivializes the Holocaust and demonstrates an intolerable forgetting of history.'"
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#OrgClassifPPDESozialdemokratischeParteiDeutschlandsSPDHeikoMaas [Wikipedia] [tweet]
#ToponymEuropeBelgiumVlaamsGewestGhent
#ToponymEuropePolandWarsaw
#IRLActivistSophieScholl [Wikipedia]
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