Zapfenstreich (“Grand Tattoo”) ceremony, German Chancellor Merkel receives the formal military goodbye. Tags:Europe 7 comments I wonder if a chancellor will ever pick the imperial march as one of his or her his departure songs. Merkel went for stuff from her youth. Why they use what looks like imperial eagle, instead of the official [coat of arms of Germany](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany.svg/788px-Coat_of_arms_of_Germany.svg.png)? This same event has already been posted, and the “on this day” flair is wrong, too. Big ups I’m excited to see same jokes that I’ve seen a hundred times before. Love the helmets 🪖 “Augen – rechts!” Everybody: *turns head to the left* France must be sweating right now Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment.
I wonder if a chancellor will ever pick the imperial march as one of his or her his departure songs. Merkel went for stuff from her youth.
Why they use what looks like imperial eagle, instead of the official [coat of arms of Germany](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany.svg/788px-Coat_of_arms_of_Germany.svg.png)?
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I wonder if a chancellor will ever pick the imperial march as one of his or her his departure songs. Merkel went for stuff from her youth.
Why they use what looks like imperial eagle, instead of the official [coat of arms of Germany](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany.svg/788px-Coat_of_arms_of_Germany.svg.png)?
This same event has already been posted, and the “on this day” flair is wrong, too.
Big ups
I’m excited to see same jokes that I’ve seen a hundred times before.
Love the helmets 🪖
“Augen – rechts!”
Everybody: *turns head to the left*
France must be sweating right now