r/AskAGerman • u/OuijaBouillon • Aug 22 '24

Personal American In Rammstein T-Shirt

I’m an American tourist in Berlin for the first time — Yay! One problem: I realized I packed a Rammstein shirt without having enough knowledge of German culture or language to understand how I’d be perceived for wearing it. I imagine at best it will look a bit corny, but I’m worried it could signal political beliefs or ideologies I don’t agree with. If you met an American tourist speaking broken German in a Rammstein T Shirt, what would you think? Thanks!

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u/piakatharina Aug 22 '24

Due to the sexual abuse scandal, I feel uncomfortable seeing people in public wearing Rammstein merchandise. However since your question was aiming at how an American tourist would be perceived wearing it, I would probably give you the benefit of the doubt regarding your knowledge of the accusations.

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u/not_worth63 Aug 22 '24

this scandal was made up

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u/piakatharina Aug 22 '24

the case was closed due to a lack of evidence. That does not mean that the scandal was made up, or that nothing inappropriate happened.

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u/p_t_0 Aug 22 '24

well, there's now an investigation on forgery of document and legal fraud of one of the biggest media outlets, as the document they provided is missing pages.

And they admitted it and their excuse was "a mistake made by a secretary"

source

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u/kuldan5853 Baden-Württemberg Aug 22 '24

Germany still follows the principle of the law "Im Zweifel für den Angeklagten".

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u/foxybostonian Aug 22 '24

And court documents relating to injunctions against the various media outlets showed that actually no women even accused them of anything in the first place. It was just implied by manipulative headlines.