The minute he did this in real life, some teenagers on Twitter decided that he was doing a Nazi salute and spread it around. Subsequently all the football websites that want some traffic also decided that this was a Nazi salute and it got to the point where RVP himself had to say:
“It has been brought to my attention of some ridiculous allegations concerning my celebration of one of my goals yesterday. It is totally ludicrous to suggest that my action of brushing my shoulder and pointing to my fans could be construed as anything else but of a showing of joy and celebration. To suggest this meant anything to the contrary is insulting and absolutely absurd as nothing else came into my mind.”So at least that's cleared up then. If he starts goose stepping the next time he scores I think it's fair to start looking into it a little further but if history has taught me anything, it's that people from the Netherlands don't like Nazis. Or is that hills?
I'm trying to fit in an Anne Frank joke here. Something about Twitter.... maybe RVP tweets from his attic? There's something here somewhere.
Actually one of the highest NSDAP membership per population was in the Netherlands, they even had their own SS party, look even Wikipedia says so, so thats FACT! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandsche_SS, they just like to delete their collaboration for historical convenience... like the French do, and instead emphasise the resistance which constituted 1% and consisted of Jews fighting for their lives and some hardcore communists! That said I think this is just how Germanic (which the Dutch secretly are too) men emphasise a rush of blood and excitement, in a formal, controlled and rational manner, which leads to such gestures as seen rather than a dance or something you might get from a Senegalese player... the gesture thus is not a result of the nazi salute but rather the nazi salute a result of excited Germanic men! In conclusion I agree there was no political ideology behind this salute!
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