A German television show has proposed a plan to persuade far-right antivaxers to get jabbed by offering them free swastika-shaped Bratwursts, dressing staff up as Nazi nurses and calling the vaccination centre Spritzkrieg (Jab War).
The mock documentary, created by the weekly political satire show Extra 3 and broadcast on the NDR public regional network, pokes fun at the country’s vocal anti-Covid movement, which is supported by the far right and is particularly strong in the eastern states such as Saxony, which has the lowest vaccination rates in the country.
It is set in the fictional village of “Unter-Hinteracker” (Back of Beyond) and shows a desperate doctor racking his brains over how to attract people to his deserted vaccination centre.
He has an epiphany when he sees a torch-lit parade of the “Hermann Goering Gymnastics Club” march past and decides to rename his centre “Spritzkrieg” in Gothic-style writing, adorned with the sign “To the Impfbunker” over the entrance.
The doctor then puts on a Second World War Wehrmacht uniform and gives the treatment cubicles names such as “Führerbunker” and “Wolfsschanze” (Wolf’s Lair). The walls are adorned with propaganda posters advertising “Adolf Zeneca” and the staff are dressed in wartime nurse outfits.
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Under the new Spritzkrieg regime, the burghers of Unter-Hinteracker flock to get jabbed.
One skinhead, who had previously refused to have a “foreign Bill Gates vaccine pumped into my Aryan arm” is seen walking into the centre and looking delighted at the swastika sausage and the offer of the Führerbunker cubicle.
After his jab, he meekly asks the nurse: “Can I have a plaster?”
She replies: “No, with us you get an armband for your sacrificial dedication on the Reich Vaccination Front.”
The armband is seen to be red with black crossed syringes, and he straightens his back with pride as she slides it up his arm.
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Soon the nurse reports victory, telling the director the vaccination rate has hit the magic 88 per cent level, an important symbol in neo-Nazi circles that represents the letters HH, which stand for Heil Hitler.
The clip has been shared over 250,000 times on YouTube, where the response has been mostly positive. “The best thing about it is that it might actually work,” one viewer commented.
However, one critic on Facebook wrote: “It’s absolutely not funny anymore always to discriminate against the Saxons as Nazis.”
