From time to time
bands choose awkward names unconsciously. The Salford and Macclesfield new wave
formation New Order was one of them.

Unfortunately former Cambodia was not the only place where a new order
came up: Hitler's National Socialists also pursued it. Their ‘Neuordnung’ (German
for new order) referred to a new form of government and organisation of Europe.
Obviously fascism and national socialism were to be the foundations of this new
order, considered to be a kind of earthly paradise.
After the members of New Order had
found out that their band name had a rather charged meaning, they stated profusely
that they distanced themselves from Hitler's ideas. Singer Bernard Sumner: 'We
really, really thought it didn't have any connotations, and we thought that it
was a neutral name, it didn't mean much.’
Active: 1980-1993; 1998-2007, GBR
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Since 2011, they are active again.
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