If the proliferation of genealogy web sites is anything to go by, claiming Scottish heritage seems to be something of an obsession for many Americans.

Fundamentally, we have no problem with that. If tracing your roots back to Robert the Bruce, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Kenneth McKellar or the Krankies is important to you, then there’s no harm in that, surely?

Well, it all depends on who’s doing the tracing.

Prussian Blue - Butter wouldn't melt in their mouths - but shite pours out of them

The thing is, we’re actually quite fussy about who gets to go around claiming to be Scots. You can’t have just any old Tom, Dick or Harry claiming to be a Jimmy.

At least, not when the Toms, Dicks or Harrys in question are racist trash.

Very pretty racist trash in this case, but racist trash nonetheless.

Ladies and Gentlemen, please be upstanding, make a big noise and welcome to the stage, the one, the only (thank the Lord) Prussian Blue.

Prussian Blue is an American “Pop” Band consisting of 13 year old twins Lynx and Lamb Gaede.

They are Nazis and proud of it. Even their name is offensive – “Prussian Blue” being the name given to the residue left by Zyklon B, the poison used to gas millions in Nazi concentration camps. Their message of racial hatred and praise for Hitler has been causing major anger across America since their first appearance in 2002.

Not content with infuriating their fellow Americans, though, they’ve recently been turning their hands to pissing the Scots off.

The girls model some hilariously funny T-shirts

The SS-loving teenies, who give Sieg Heil salutes on stage while singing lyrics such as “When black masked men come bashing down the door….” , and who have a frighteningly large following amongst hardcore white supremacists, caused outrage in Scotland with claims (now removed) on their website that they were of Scottish descent. As if to back their “racially pure” Scottish credentials up, the website also provided several links (also now removed) to other Scottish-themed internet sites.

Scottish Socialist MSP Tommy Sheridan led the way in condemning the twins, saying that “The Nazis have no cultural or historical link to Scotland. Our country has always combated fascism verbally and physically and such links on a website are poisonous and very misleading.”

Meanwhile, back across the pond in Bakersfield, California, the girls were providing living proof that the old adage “children should be seen and not heard” is absolutely spot-on by opening their gobs and spewing forth such unbelievable tripe as;

“Men like Adolf Hitler and Rudolph Hess are our heroes. We admire them for what they stood for. They were prepared to do whatever it took, no matter what the cost.”

And

“Lots of things were exaggerated about the Second World War. We don’t believe that six million Jews were executed. I mean, there weren’t even that many Jews alive then.”

And our personal favourite;

“We know there were concentration camps but they had swimming pools and tennis courts there.”

The company that makes those hilarious T-shirts also makes this sensitive mousemat

Of couse, the girls themselves aren’t to blame. They are merely regurgitating the poison they’ve been fed, presumably by Mom and Dad, since they were old enough to wave a swastika.

Whoever it was that filled their pretty little heads with such obnoxious and misguided garbage, we would hazard a guess it was the same deluded fool or fools who told the twins they were talented.

Be in absolutely no doubt. They aren’t. Not even slightly. They sound exactly like what they are – two teenage girls who can’t sing and can’t play, pretending to be Pop Stars.

Amateurish isn’t the word. Embarrassing is getting closer.

If you think that’s being a little unfair, take a visit to their adorable little website and listen to one of the sample songs they’ve got up there.

They’re hilarious! Heck, we might even put them into our Bad Scottish Pop section, seeing as how they’re so keen to have Scottish connections.

http://www.prussianblue.net/