How cute was it, the parade of snowmen on Hamburg’s Krugkoppelbrücke, up on the Outer Alster! One’s winter heart felt very warm as one walked along, one crystalline soul comforter lined up one after the other. Some wore colorful egg warmers as hats or tiny HSV scarves, others stood upside down or were equipped with skis and ski poles. But that’s not why the collective work of art went viral last weekend, and certainly not because of the almonds and juniper berries as little eyes, the little arms made of sticks and the little ears made of leaves; No, the Hanseatic tradition went viral (in years of snowfall) because an unprecedented act of vandalism took place against it. The sheer barbarism.