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barcafan161

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Obviously, because they were awesome in the first leg. Also kicked ass against Barcelona when they had 2 sent off.

They have only given up 12 goals this season and 4 were to Barca. They are a great team and would frustrate the crap out of any of the big teams and Barca/Bayern are the only match-up where I wouldn’t say they would fancy their chances. They could well beat everybody else.
 

Luftstalag14

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What events would that be Luft ?

Jews being sent to concentration camps such as Auschwitz via rail road.

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Yannik

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Ridiculous to even apologize for that. Germans can't even show pictures of fucking normal railroads anymore.
 

Yannik

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Agreed, but I don't get why they put a railroad track there in the first place.

There's no big meaning behind that, like in 90% of matchgraphics. Someone sat in the PR, thinking of a graphic to make and suddenly had the idea "Fuck yeah, RAILROADS".
If the italian media would do any research they would quickly find out, that Bayern was a jewish club in the Nazi regime.
 

Luftstalag14

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There's no big meaning behind that, like in 90% of matchgraphics. Someone sat in the PR, thinking of a graphic to make and suddenly had the idea "Fuck yeah, RAILROADS".
If the italian media would do any research they would quickly find out, that Bayern was a jewish club in the Nazi regime.

Were the Italians (Juve fans to be more precise) or the Jewish folks protesting this?
 

Yannik

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Were the Italians (Juve fans to be more precise) or the Jewish folks protesting this?

From what I know a couple of Juve twitter accounts got offended by that, mainly because of the caption in the picture. It says "Qui è la fine" (Here is the end), a reference to Juve's hashtag #Finoallafine (#UntilTheEnd). According to them soft banter is in poor taste because it's arrogant or something. To further illustrate the point of how offensive this is, they say that the image evokes the famous railroad entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Then some lesser serious italian newspapers such as Tuttosport and Gazzetta took this, and even started a hashtag for this. #viaibinarinazisti (#RemoveTheNaziRails). And from what I heard there's supposedly a small jewish commune within Rome who took offense of this.

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Italian media has been throwing around the Nazi-gimmick at quite a lot of opportunitys since Juve had drawn Bayern. At every possible opportunity they throw the term "Über alles" into something. Even the official Juventus stadium newspaper did that during the 1st leg. They're italian though, they didn't have to apologize. :rolleyes:

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Luftstalag14

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From what I know a couple of Juve twitter accounts got offended by that, mainly because of the caption in the picture. It says "Qui è la fine" (Here is the end), a reference to Juve's hashtag #Finoallafine (#UntilTheEnd). According to them soft banter is in poor taste because it's arrogant or something. To further illustrate the point of how offensive this is, they say that the image evokes the famous railroad entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Then some lesser serious italian newspapers such as Tuttosport and Gazzetta took this, and even started a hashtag for this. #viaibinarinazisti (#RemoveTheNaziRails). And from what I heard there's supposedly a small jewish commune within Rome who took offense of this.

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Italian media has been throwing around the Nazi-gimmick at quite a lot of opportunitys since Juve had drawn Bayern. At every possible opportunity they throw the term "Über alles" into something. Even the official Juventus stadium newspaper did that during the 1st leg. They're italian though, they didn't have to apologize. :rolleyes:

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Thanks Yannik for the rather in-depth explanation. So just some harmless pre-game trash-talking that was taken out of context and got out of hand, I see.

Yeah, the Italians weren't exactly the innocent victims themselves back then.
 
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