Athletes Horrified as Nazi Anthem Plays at US/Germany Tennis Match [VIDEO]

February 13, 2017

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German tennis player Andrea Petkovic said it was “the worst thing I experienced,” and the “epitome of ignorance,” after her Saturday match in Lahaina, Hawaii, against American Alison Riske began with a robust singing of the German national anthem  cherished by the late Adolf Hitler, Das Lied der Deutschen, which opens with the immortal verse, “Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles” (Germany, Germany above all), and has been banned in Germany since 1945.

The US Tennis Association apologized to the German team and its fans for the singer’s possibly unintended faux pas. They promised it would never happen again.

The German players, coaches and small group of fans were obviously unhappy – while no one around them even understood what was going on.

Some German fans started singing the correct German anthem, but were drowned out by the Nazi tune on the loudspeakers.

According to the AP report of the game itself, Andrea Petkovic was facing not just the German legacy of the 1933-1945 Reich, but also gusty winds and intermittent rain. Her American opponent, Alison Riske, gradually pushed to a 7-6, 6-2 win over the more experienced German player.

The verses of that Nazi anthem are harmless enough if you are unfamiliar with the European map, but if you do know geography and history, you start getting the picture:

“Germany, Germany above all / above anything in the world / when always for protection / we stand together as brothers. / from the Meuse river (rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands, well west of Germany) to the Nemen river (east of Poland) / from the Adige river (Italian border) to the Belt (the sea near Denmark).”

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