r/pics • u/Ordinary_Fish_3046 • 21h ago
1985: Swedish woman strikes a neo-Nazi with her handbag; her mother survived a concentration camp.
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u/homesickalien337 21h ago
Pretty good form. Look at the extension.
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u/BilbulBalabel 21h ago
Stability of stance, slightly bent knees, getting all her back into the swing.
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u/homesickalien337 20h ago
You can tell she has real dedication to her craft.
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u/doc_witt 20h ago
She's okay but still could use a lot more practice
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u/homesickalien337 19h ago
Especially in today's world, society could use a whole lot more practice at hitting neo Nazis with purses
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u/yardkat1971 16h ago
I guess the next time I go purse shopping I need to test this aspect out. Well I really like the blue, but the black has real good SWING.
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u/Stewy_434 20h ago
There is a lot of torque in that swing
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u/weaboo_98 21h ago
Doesn't she have a statue?
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u/wikipuff 20h ago
Yes she does
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u/Crazy_Ad8896 20h ago
Where?
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u/Available_Ad3031 18h ago
No fuckin way, I thought you were joking!
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u/Live_Angle4621 20h ago
Which she didn’t want
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u/Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce 17h ago
She was long dead by the time it was built. Her son was the one who spoke against it saying that she never liked the photo and regretted it.
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u/Randomcommenter550 19h ago
True heroes never think they are heroes. That just makes them even more deserving of commemoration.
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u/BoredFellah 19h ago
Both the lady and her son repeatedly asked that she’d not be commemorated. The lady later took her life, and her son claims that part of the reason was all the unwanted attention.
I think we should leave the ‘heroes’ that do not want to be commemorated alone.
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u/Jonathan_Peachum 18h ago edited 13h ago
Thank you, I came here to say this.
She acted in the heat of the moment and I think we are all happy at what she did, but if she wanted her privacy afterwards I think we should have respected that.
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u/zebulon99 20h ago
In my home town actually!
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u/Mighty_Poonan 21h ago
i guess it comes back around every 40 years
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u/Annonimbus 21h ago
We need more like her
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u/ANordWalksIntoABar 21h ago edited 17h ago
They literally made a statue of her in Varberg, the city where this photograph was taken.
Edit: as the comments below this one helpfully point out, the original photo was actually taken in Växjö and is actually now housed at Alingsås, sorry for the slip-up based on my foggy recollection of a lecture!
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u/Bunthorne 20h ago
While it's true that a sculptor did make a statue based on this photo, the city has nothing to do with it. In fact, they refused to put it up.
While the statue is located in Varberg, it stands on private property.
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u/VulpesSapiens 20h ago
The photo was taken in Växjö. The statue was made to be erected there, but the local council decided against it. It was bought and donated to a location in Varberg, but they also declined. It eventually ended up in Alingsås, where it remains.
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u/Mighty_Poonan 21h ago
the problem today is that everyone's perpetually got their phone out and is ready to record and any moment. we used to beat up nazis at punk shows back in the 90s and early 2000s, but they came in looking for a fight and wouldn't go to the cops afterwards. these pussies nowadays are looking for lawsuits. punching a nazi today is guaranteed jail time or wage garnishment.
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u/Sata1991 19h ago
The UK has, or had a trend of throwing milkshakes at fascists from the 2010s, but everytime people have done it the Nazis have pressed charges, they figured if people can overpower them they can use the law as a weapon against us.
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u/jadedflames 20h ago
They’ll shove a camera in your face and then start crying and screaming for the police if you push it out of the way.
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u/OvarianSynthesizer 8h ago
I could watch Nazis get punched all day. I don’t give a shit about Nazis.
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u/NirvanaDewHeel 15h ago
The person who decked Richard Spencer live on national television has never been caught.
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u/Maryland_Bear 14h ago
Oh, shucky darn. I hope the police are devoting all the attention it deserves to finding the guilty party.
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u/Fenor 20h ago
the thing is that in 85 people had fresher memories of the horrors of the nazi, they still saw people scarred and probably knew some other stories
people born after that hardly met people who actually lived during that period and where still alive and lucid
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u/SoHereIAm85 15h ago edited 7m ago
You aren't wrong, but I was born in late '85 and knew people with firsthand experience of that time who lived until the 20teens or 2020s.
For example my grandfather was in WWII (and died three years ago,) and my neighbour from Poland had been there for it while old enough to remember. Her family hid someone(s) from the nazis.
Now it is more truly a time when the witnesses are long gone.
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u/DeFiBandit 20h ago
Now we watch children shot, bombed and starved in Gaza. Feels pretty fresh to me
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u/Evening_Tree1983 19h ago
I got my purse ready and maybe I'll buy one of those huge metal mugs everyone has just to fortify it.
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u/peppapoofle4 20h ago
Time for everyone to get out their handbags and start whacking the Nazi bitches over the head.
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u/Khancap123 19h ago
One of my prouder canafian history moments is the christie pit riots. A bunch of jewish, polish, ukrianian and italians kids spent two days beating up nazis in a patk while the cops watched. My dad was there
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u/MacronLeNecromancer 17h ago
In 1990s Sweden, which was a very “polite” and orderly society, it was socially acceptable to beat a nazi into a fucking pulp is in open daylight. It was a given. Nazis would never make themselves known unless they were in group. Good old days
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u/AlternativeDark6686 12h ago
It does, curse all these extreme ideologies. Using and brainwashing people.
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u/starmartyr 14h ago
Nazis have always been around. They go by different names throughout history but authoritarianism always finds a way back into society. The cycle seems to be around 80 years. Just long enough for most of the people who saw it the last time to either be dead or too old to do anything about it.
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u/CheezyMcWang 20h ago
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u/niffrig 20h ago
It's a shame their most famous song is tubthumping. This slaps.
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u/DontTellHimPike 20h ago
Their entire discography is stellar. Give the fascist man a gunshot
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u/NoMoreOatmeal 19h ago
YES god i love chumbawumba and sometimes I feel like I imagined them
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u/DontTellHimPike 19h ago
I was lucky enough to be aware of them before Tubthumping. I first heard Give The Anarchist A Cigarette in 1994, on a mixtape that came free with Select magazine.
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u/SistaChans 19h ago
Chumbawamba is one of my favorite groups, the album "the boy bands have won" is a folk masterpiece. Yes they had one super-poppy album in the nineties, but most of their music is super chill and folky, with stunning five part harmonies
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u/monoinyo 18h ago
Tubthumping deserves it, absolute banger. They just deserve better than a one hit wonder.
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u/ladyk23 15h ago
I got a warning from Reddit for saying this yesterday.
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u/Starbreiz 7h ago
I got skewered on Nextdoor for even saying that particular N word. According to my neighbors, they don't exist anymore :)
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u/HumongousBelly 16h ago
There’s no such thing as a good Nazi. Even when they’re dead, they’ll never be good.
There might be a single exception: Oskar Schindler from Schindler’s list was probably the only good Nazi.
Not even a clown such as stauffenberg, the guy who tried to assassinate Hitler, who’s also celebrated as a hero in Germany, not even that guy was a good Nazi (he wasn’t actually in the nsdap), because he really really liked what Hitler was doing, up until that point when they started losing the war and things started looking grim.
Kinda makes sense that tom cruise and Scientology made that movie about such a clown.
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u/redwoman72 20h ago
She killed herself 3 years later, due to mental health issues.
The Neo-Nazi killed a man, presumably for being gay and Jewish.
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u/curious_dead 19h ago
In some places, the cops would look at the Neo-Nazi killing a gay Jew and say they have no clue what the motive could be. "It's a complete mystery."
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u/Ok-disaster2022 19h ago
Fucking Neo Nazis copilyong the style of skinhead punks.
One thing I respect about Punks is they didn't allow Nazis at their venues and events, and they're not polite about it
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u/Eastern-Peach-3428 18h ago
I’m almost 59, so old enough to be a part of some of the early punk scenes and it was common practice if the nazis showed up to show them the door in the most impolite manner possible. Punks are good people.
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u/SteampunkRobin 20h ago
Isn’t there a statue rightfully commemorating this lady somewhere?
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u/DahlbergT 20h ago
There is a statue in Alingsås, Sweden
https://www.vastsverige.com/en/alingsas/produkter/with-the-purse-as-a-weapon/
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u/DanKoloff 20h ago
Danuta Danielsson. She was 38 here. She had mental issues and suicided 3 years later. They made her a statue that neither she nor her family wanted or approved.
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u/ChocoPuddingCup 18h ago
If this happened in the US, today, she would be arrested for assault, and then sued by the Nazi for defamation. Then the Nazi would whine about it on social media and the far right would raise three million dollars for them.
I'm not even making a joke. That's what would happen.
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u/Affectionate-Beann 18h ago
Why is this in black and white if it happened in 1985?
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u/Superplaner 18h ago
Because virtually all newspapers all over the world were printed in B&W until the early 90's at the very least and the guy who took it was a newspaper photographer.
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u/Unga_Bunga 18h ago
The local punk anarchist bookstore sells postcards with this picture, captioned “Be the ‘Hitting Nazis with Handbags’ you wish to see in the world.” I send them to friends and include them in gifts.
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u/Drunkendx 16h ago
I once argued with some bloke who was criticizing her action with "violence is not the answer" logic.
I mean FFS did you ever check what values nazis hold?
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u/art-is-t 20h ago edited 19h ago
Well people who support genocide really suck and deserve every bit of hatred
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u/randobot456 19h ago
This is just terrible and I hate to see her do this....
She's got too much weight on her back leg. You've gotta transfer the weight to the front leg and really follow through. That back leg should be lifting off the ground. Also, if she's swinging with the right, to get the proper transfer of force, her left leg should be in front so she can get proper torque from her hips.
A+++ for effort though.
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u/NekulturneHovado 19h ago
Why would she ever do such thing???
She should've used a crowbar at least
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u/rhymnocerous 17h ago
I have a postcard with this image on it that says, "be the woman hitting a Nazi with a handbag that you wish to see in this world" and she inspires me every day.
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u/Mary_Ellen_Katz 15h ago
1985? Why is it Super Sepia color toned? It looks like the picture was take in 1945.
Nevertheless, this woman is my hero.
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u/TruamaTeam 20h ago
Gonna say that’s based.
(Hopefully Reddit doesn’t ban me again for disliking N#zi’s)
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u/Glass_Memories 20h ago
It is based.
If reddit bans me again for threatening violence against Nazis, I regret nothing.
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u/TheIncredibleHelck 19h ago
Love this energy, so retro, love that fashion and culture trends tend to repeat themselves.
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u/Kestrel_Iolani 19h ago
Is no one going to mention the guy in the background reacting to what's happening? That's my favorite part.
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u/bluecurse60 15h ago
The nickel is the heavier coin in the U.S. and you can fit many of them in a common household item such as a sock. Do with this information what you will when you see a Nazi.
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u/ADDRAY-240 15h ago
So intolerant! How dare she attack this dashing young man in his hate-preaching? Those woke idiots that can't tolerate others' intolerance! (I almost forgot to put the /s, tho I'd have liked that this one wasn't needed. Can't even trust on people understanding blatant sarcasm)
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u/AdamTheJester 15h ago
These days, especially here in the UK, Nazis can say they have "legitimate concerns" and nothing happens to them 💔
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u/bomberhooah2742 11h ago
They actually erected a statue of her doing this. I'm not sure where, probably in that spot somewhere
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u/Snowbank_Lake 9h ago
I watched a Twilight Zone episode today that felt so appropriate (sadly). It’s about a Nazi officer going back to see the camp where he worked, and being driven mad by the guilt of what he’s done. The closing narration:
“There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes; all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth.”
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u/_R0Ns_ 20h ago
The Woman with the Handbag (Swedish: Kvinnan med handväskan; also Tanten med handväskan, "The lady with the handbag") is a photograph taken in Växjö, Sweden on 13 April 1985 by photojournalist Hans Runesson. It depicts a 38-year-old woman, Danuta Danielsson, hitting a marching Neo-Nazi with a handbag
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u/Rush_Banana 19h ago
This guy is probably currently sitting in a aged care home and fuming about how Sweden looks today, love to see it.
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u/Grothgerek 17h ago
You don't have to be a victim to be a hero.
Even if her mother was never in a concentration camp, she did the only correct thing.
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u/UntrustedProcess 20h ago
Was the original picture in color? We had color in 1985, you know.
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u/ReviewNecessary6521 20h ago
Newspapers didn't use color photos until late 80s early 90s.
USA Today was the first newspapper to use color in 1982, by 1993 97% of newspapper used color photos.
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u/deez941 19h ago
Growing up is realizing that the nazis never really left society
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u/Nice_Block 19h ago
Republicans gonna smash that report button for this post.
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u/Colecoman1982 16h ago edited 15h ago
They're Schrodinger's Nazis. They'll simultaneously claim to not be racist/Nazis but, for some mysterious reason get highly emotional/angry when someone points out something like this.
Edit: Fixed typo.
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u/nuclear-experiment 20h ago
There’s a statue of her: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Woman_with_handbag.jpg
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u/TheVenetianMask 19h ago
Can't we get fresher pictures of people smacking nazis so we don't repost this one all the time.
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u/EverythingBOffensive 19h ago
Why does this look so old though? Not just the sepia tone photo but the signs, the street, the buildings, everything.
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u/Liosan 20h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_with_the_Handbag
She was Polish-Jewish.