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To: Natural Law

I don’t know.

I was stationed in Germany for while. Learned to speak German easily.

The modern-day Germans were a pretty darn anti-semetic bunch. I am Scott-Irish white trash. Generic non-denominational Chrisitan. Big white guy; football player. By looks, I could have been Waffen SS.

The inner-Nazi would creep out of Germans when drunk. Consistently.

The only time I got into a fight in the Army was when two locals started going off about Jews. For whatever reason I had had enough and just couldn’t take it.

It ended with me smashing heads with a paving stone and me in German jail, then the “brig.”

I just kinda avoided Germans for the rest of my stint.


57 posted on 11/30/2009 10:09:46 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian
"The modern-day Germans were a pretty darn anti-semetic bunch."

Not my experience at all. They have their share of bigots and knuckleheads, but not disproportionately so. I've met as many bigots in Israel, Britain and the US as I have in Germany. There is a degree of resentment over the continued financial burden imposed for the sins of their grandparents, but they are not unlike any people I have met in dozens of countries. In any event, the few radical antisemites don't condemn the entire country to deserving of fire bombings and mass civilian casualties today anymore than it did 65 years ago.

59 posted on 11/30/2009 11:20:26 AM PST by Natural Law
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