# could someone explain this for me please? \[Neo-Nazi code words\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 23, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-for-me-please-neo-nazi-code-words/752866 "2016-04-23T02:52:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-for-me-please-neo-nazi-code-words/752866/41 "2016-04-26T23:11:50Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > And “88” is police code for a disturbance involving nazis. > [@Ignotus](#): > > Googling “police code 88” doesn’t confirm this. Do you have a cite? > > (I’m dubious, mostly because I can’t see the need for a special code for this kind of eventuality – would the police handle it differently than, say, a disturbance involving anarchists?) I understand a “10-82” is a code referring to disappearing a dead hooker from Ben Affleck’s trailer/dressing room. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-for-me-please-neo-nazi-code-words/752866/42 "2016-04-27T06:27:09Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > If HH meant anything dubious in the German psyche, they would not put HH on the number plates of every car in one of Germay’s largest cities. I don’t think anyone is saying that 88 is a big thing to Germans, it’s much more of a thing for English-speaking Neo-Nazis in the US, UK, and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-for-me-please-neo-nazi-code-words/752866/43 "2016-04-27T06:57:41Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > I understand a “10-82” is a code referring to disappearing a dead hooker from Ben Affleck’s trailer/dressing room. Oh, that Affleck. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-for-me-please-neo-nazi-code-words/752866/44 "2016-04-27T07:07:19Z")
I have seen skinheads with the HH tattoos and they’re always in conjunction with the 88 tattoos, but these guys always seem to have crazy clown tattoos, also. What do the clown tattoos represent? ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-for-me-please-neo-nazi-code-words/752866/45 "2016-04-27T08:24:06Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > Just to point out - as has been done numerous times before, > > In Asian cultures 8 or 88 is considered lucky - so just because there is a screen name 88 don’t jump to any conclusions True, though that brings up its own unsavory associations. It’s common knowledge in Japan, for example, that an expensive car with darkened windows and 88’s in the license most likely belongs to someone high up with the yakuza. (incidentally, 88 is lucky because it resembles 喜喜, meaning good luck) ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-for-me-please-neo-nazi-code-words/752866/46 "2016-04-27T09:03:03Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > I don’t think anyone is saying that 88 is a big thing to Germans, it’s much more of a thing for English-speaking Neo-Nazis in the US, UK, and so on. German Neo-Nazis do seem to have adopted some trappings of the US Neo-Nazi/White Power scene though; they are not immune from the general cultural diffusion of US culture. ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-for-me-please-neo-nazi-code-words/752866/47 "2016-04-28T12:25:11Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > German car number plates have prefixes to designate the city. H is used for Hannover, and the large city of Hamburg, also starting with H, is designated as HH, for Hamburg’s official name, Verfassung der Freien und _ **Hansestadt Hamburg** _. > > If HH meant anything dubious in the German psyche, they would not put HH on the number plates of every car in one of Germay’s largest cities. That 88 thing is a US NeoNazi thing. It kinda like the meaning of “[ersatz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ersatz_good#Etymology)” in English vs the German original meaning. In Germany the HH or 88 had nothing to do with Nazi, until the US started to put it in movies and TV shows representing Neo-Nazis. …and yes, extremely few people driving a car in Hamburg with HH are Nazis, especially since you’re number plate must start with HH. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-this-for-me-please-neo-nazi-code-words/752866.md?page=2)