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The New German Nazism
Front Page Magazine ^ | October 10, 2006 | William E. Grim

Posted on 05/17/2007 3:02:07 PM PDT by Kimmers

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To: navyguy
Okay, it’s the the usual tripe. I thought it might be something more nuanced.
41 posted on 05/18/2007 9:34:45 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Isn’t that the funny part? Not one bit of the garbage I heard was in the least bit ‘nuanced’.


42 posted on 05/18/2007 9:37:26 AM PDT by navyguy (We don't need more youth. What we need is a fountain of SMART.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

“Well, it’s a Norweigian and German dominated sport”
joke?

actually a Pole called Pudzianowski is owning the whole competition for few years now, and the sport is dominated by Eastern Europeans Poles, Russians, Bulgarians


43 posted on 05/18/2007 11:09:21 AM PDT by Verdelet (Part of the team of University Football Champions 2007...healing leg injury after final match...)
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To: navyguy

“I’ve been told directly to my face that Americans are ignorant of other cultures. This, in spite of the fact that our schools are obessessed with multiculturalism and we have the most culturally diverse society on the planet.”

- read it “America is absolute rubbish of cultures”

“I’ve been told that Americans are dangerous, gun crazy and violent people. “
- trigger happy is the word

“I’ve been told that we have too much freedom. That statement speaks for itself.”
- American media are on the place fiftysomething when it comes to media freedom.

“I’ve been told that our president is a stupid cowboy even though he successfully masterminded the 9/11 attacks”
- There were a lot of factors showing clearly that 9/11 will happen, all of them were ignored by CIA... seems that
successfully mesterminding 9/11 is a bit too late.

“I’ve been told that the evil Jews run our country.”
I’ve been told the same by an American

Also an educated American told me about Swiss U-boots sinking american battleships during Cold War.


44 posted on 05/18/2007 11:19:39 AM PDT by Verdelet (Part of the team of University Football Champions 2007...healing leg injury after final match...)
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To: Verdelet

No, not a joke, and yes, while there are people from all over the world (incld Poles and Scots and even Chinese), the rank-and-file of the participants (esp., and the middle/upper tier, which is where I am) are from the Northern European countries.

The really good guys get on TV at 10:00 pm. I’m on at 3:00 am.


45 posted on 05/18/2007 11:36:18 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
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To: Verdelet

“Also an educated American told me about Swiss U-boots sinking american battleships during Cold War.”

Oh yeah, we have our share of idiots, to be sure. But European posturing as educated elites all the while making stupendously idiotic claims about American life really take the cake.


46 posted on 05/18/2007 11:37:02 AM PDT by navyguy (We don't need more youth. What we need is a fountain of SMART.)
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To: narby

There is a very authoritarian side to Germanic Europe, especially found in Germany, that is passed down parent-to-child to this day. I lived in France and Switzerland and spent months at a time in Germany and the character change when switching language regions is so telling.

I have experienced this first hand: quickly parking in a “red zone” to run into a shop to grab something, say. In Germany, a passer-by will stop you and shout, “HEY! You can’t park here!” They might even try to verbally prevent you from entering the store. In France, the passer-by will conspiratorally say with a smile that he saw a flic (cop) one street over, so you’d better be careful so you don’t get a ticket.


47 posted on 05/18/2007 11:44:41 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Kimmers
Extremly ridicolous BS.

First and foremost is the realization that, while not all Germans are anti-Semitic, there is an anti-Semitic tendency within German culture that extends back to the time of Martin Luther.

The problem might be that you find in the whole western world some antisemitism among primitive people. And not just since Martin Luther. This is no specific German problem.

The irony is, that in Germany antisemitism does not play a significant role anymore, because today there are only a handful of real Jews that live in my country. We have simply not enough Jewish people in Germany left to give the plebs enough motivation to hate them. A German Jew is therefore rather interesting than unwanted. De facto the German antisemitic phantom is a unimpressive political Fata Morgana. Although we had higher Jewish immigration than Israel during the 90ties, since many Jews from Russia prefered the developed and peaceful Germany to the war-shaken Israel, Jewish life practically does not appear in the German public. Most of the (former) Russian Jews are absolutely secular and do not care a bit about Jewish traditions. This is the reason why the Jewish religion is something very strange to contemporary Germans, because they have practically no points (or even a chance) of contact.

The reason for the subliminal antisemitism that appears in isolated cases in Germany is different: Some modern Germans indeed do not like Israel that much, since they were overfeeded with too much pro-Israel and anti-Nazi propaganda in school on one hand and they are angry about the ongoing financial support after more than 60 years on the other. Nobody sane questions the Holocaust, but since 95% of the real Nazis are simply dust in the meantime, some of the great-grandchildren refuse wearing the penitential robe forever. The way some "do-gooders" celebrate the holocaust as their surrogate religion in Germany is indeed quite strange.

I.e. the oversized Holocaust-monument in Berlin has very little to do with history or true emotion. While the authentic, impressive and heartbreaking memorials -the former concentration camps in Germany- slowly disaggregate, a expensive, political correct fairy tale was stage-managed near the Brandenburg gate. The German people know that this memorial has nothing to do with the victims, they are well aware that it is the political correct mainstream celebration that was (and is) paid with their taxes against their will. Therefore this memorial has gotten the nickname "Hundeklo" (a place to walk to dog) since it is formed of a conglomeration of menhirs that shall illustrate the gravestones of the death Jews. A small army of security men is needed now to get into the way of dogs that follow their natural needs. Americans might think that this attitude of common Germans to joke about "holy places" reflects bottomless antisemitism. The opposite is true. It is just the (helpless) expression of opposition to a stone monster in the heart of Berlin that lacks any authenticity.*

There are many more examples like this that express the new denial to erect hollow altars like this "memorial". Some people in America and Israel understand this lack of devotion among the German public as the hellfire of antisemitism or antiamericanism. This is not true. It is simply the weariness about a -during the occupation of Germany- offically decreed attitude that is still present among the political correct leadership in my country. Germans are well aware about the crimes their (grand)grandfathers committed. On the other hand they know that it were not the Germans of today that left this mess. This fact finds its expression in the unselfconscious interaction with history most young Germans have today. They know that the flow of time is washing all guilt away.

* Besides - the memorial for Holocaust in Berlin is restricted to murdered Jews only. There was a fierce fight between the Roma and Sinti (gypsies, who lost roundabout 1/2 million people in the Holocaust) and the German Jewish community over this memorial that reminded in its fashion to dumbest racism. Now there is stringent racial segregation in the remembrance of Holocaust victims in Germany among their grandchildren. If Hitler ever knew he would have died of laughter.


48 posted on 05/18/2007 3:46:55 PM PDT by Atlantic Bridge (In varietate concordia!)
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To: Kimmers
It is pure BS. Such anecdotal crap is nonsense. In Germany, you can be prosecuted if you make public pronouncements that there was no holocaust. There is far more anti-semitism in France.

In the last 15 years, the number of Jews in Germany has gone from 28,000 to well over 200,000. It's all part of the country's policy to rebuild Jewish communities destroyed by the Nazis. Attracted by generous social services, many came from Eastern Europe, especially the former Soviet Union.

49 posted on 05/18/2007 3:54:56 PM PDT by kabar
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To: beezdotcom

Aint nuthin’ new here. Scratch a German and you hit a Nazi.
The hard thing is to keep reminding jews of that fact.
they keep thinking that everyone is like them.
WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


50 posted on 05/18/2007 3:57:34 PM PDT by Gideon Reader (DEMOCRATS: Not quite American, and proud of it!)
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