All this Nazi-BS is making me sick. The whole nation is suffering from it, its just that the jerks who still joke about it don't realize it. Granted, the Fawlty Towers bit was hilarious. And Eric Cartman dressing up as Hitler for Halloween on South Park was kind of funny too. However, there has to be an end to everything.
We have established that what the Nazis did was horrible beyond belief. Us Germans are struggling to overcome the past - and have been for sixty years now. I live in the second generation born after the war. Do you know what we learn in school? There is not a single subject in which we don't talk about the Third Reich at least once during our schooltime. In history we talked about it for three years STRAIGHT.
You guys are proud of your countries, right? Well, it is kind of hard to be proud of one's country if you keep being denounced for something you never participated in - or had the chance to fight against. Germans are not proud of their country. And if someone says he is, you bet your ass there will be someone around to call him a Nazi. I wish you would know what it is like to live in a country like that.
There is such a thing as overdoing something. Personally, I find it unbelievable that there is a "WW2 Magazine" coming out in the US on a regular basis. Every other ego shooter has a WW2 theme. Several movies a year, too. And then there is a little jackass "royal" from Britain who figures he'd top it off by dressing up as a Nazi. That's just great, really.
Yesterday, there was this other British asswipe on CNN who said something like "Well, you Germans think we have no sense of humour, but we know you have no sense of humour". That's great, what an awesome attitude. I honestly don't mind the towel-jokes (they are actually pretty funny, German tourists are really great to poke fun at - sandals and white socks is another fun thing to see) and I love Monty Python. Hell, whoever says I don't have a sense of humor ought to be sent to a mental hospital. Just for the record, I won my highschool's talent show for my standup-comedy bit.
It's just too damn hard to realize this, isn't it?
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