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A pair of tongue-in-cheek German government videos hailing couch potatoes as 'heroes' in the fight against the coronavirus were proving a surprise hit on social media on Sunday.
The short videos in the style of war testimonies were trending with the hashtag #Besonderehelden ('Very Special Heroes') and had garnered a slew of comments online. In one of the clips, an old man sitting in his living room recalls: 'It was winter 2020. Everyone's eyes were on us. I was 22 years old, a mechanical engineering student in Chemnitz, when the second wave hit. 'The fate of the country was suddenly in our hands. We mustered all our courage and did what was expected of us -- the only thing we could do,' he continues. The dramatic music then cuts out for the punchline: 'We did ... nothing.' The clip then shows a young man slumped on his sofa in front of a screen, eating junk food.'Lazy as raccoons, we stayed at home on our butts day and night and fought against the spread of the virus,' the old man says.'Our couch was the front line, patience was our weapon. And so we became heroes, in the coronavirus winter of 2020.'The clips, shared by Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert, were welcomed by many internet users who found them a rare example of German humour. But others found them to be in poor taste, with one Twitter user commenting that they give the impression the pandemic 'is all about baking bread and Netflix & Chill'. 'For many people it means existential fear, short-time work, domestic violence, loneliness,' the comment said.
© Provided by Associated Press Counter demonstrators shows a poster reading: 'shame on you' as the protest against a so called 'silent march' against the corona policy of the federal government, at the district Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin Germany, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. (Fabian Sommer/dpa via AP)
BERLIN (AP) — A video went viral Sunday in Germany of a confrontation at a coronavirus protest, where a young woman compared herself to a famous Nazi resistance fighter and then was accused by a security guard of “trivializing” the Holocaust.
Several people protesting coronavirus restrictions in Germany that seek to tamp down new infections have tried to depict themselves as victims of government persecution. Some have even put on Stars of David, symbols that the Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Third Reich before they killed them.
The woman spoke on stage Saturday evening in the northern city of Hannover, telling fellow protesters “I feel like Sophie Scholl, since I've been active in the resistance, giving speeches, going to protests, distributing flyers.”
Scholl fought the Nazis with her brother and other members of the resistance group White Rose. After distributing flyers at a Munich university, she was convicted of high treason and was executed at age 22 by the Nazis in 1943.
While the female protester was talking, a young security guard approached the stage, saying repeatedly that “I'm not going to be a security guard for this kind of idiocy.” The woman looked at him in disbelief while he called her speech “a trivialization of the Holocaust.” He was ushered away by security and she threw down the mic in anger.
© Provided by Associated Press Protestors attend a so called 'silent march' against the corona policy of the federal government at the district Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin Germany, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. (Fabian Sommer/dpa via AP)German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas tweeted Sunday that the comparison with Scholl “mocks the bravery that was needed to take a stand against the Nazis.”
“Nothing connects the corona protests with the resistance fighters. Nothing!' Maas wrote.
The Nazis orchestrated the genocide of six million European Jews during the Third Reich. They also killed tens of thousands of other people who opposed their regime, such as communists, Social Democrats, members of the church or resistance fighters.
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German officials, meanwhile, have been generally praised for their handling of the pandemic. The European Union nation has reported over 14,000 coronavirus-related deaths, a toll only one-fourth that of Britain's.
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