I won't post the picture because I think it's pretty bizarre. Today in Berlin, as part of the Greta business....Fridays For the Future....three German students (probably around the ages of 16 to 18).....got help in setting up a gallows 'stage' with three ropes hanging down, and then had the help to put nooses around their necks. They then stood there for a number of minutes to pose with the nooses and send some type of 'climate-change-message' to the public.
So there's the image....three German teenies with nooses on, and part of the new climate 'battle'. The image? I would imagine it'll be used for various German magazines like Spiegel, Stern, or Focus for next week's cover page.
The location of the gallows? Well...right across from the Brandenburg Gate (central Berlin) where just about every tourists is wandering about in the middle of the day. So these Chinese tourists will be standing there and looking at this, and in their mind.....thinking whacko kids.
The problem I see is that a number of German older adults will open to chat about the way things were in the 1930s of Germany and how public executions and gallows were a serious part of life. It's not something you want to fake-off or use for some protest action like this.
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