Germany Is The 'Most Popular Country in the World' (BBC Polling)

CNBC ^ | : Thursday, 23 May 2013 | 8:44 ET | By: Katie Holliday

[353FMG]

“....they will be welcomed with open arms and flowers.”

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The Nazis were initially welcomed in the Ukraine in WWII but, stupidly, they showed their ingratitude.

Had the Nazis incorporated the Ukraine in a more honorable way, the two nations would have conquered Russia and the people in Europe would all be speaking German.

[Steve_Seattle]

So, was the USA not included in the survey? The article does not make that clear - crappy journalism, for an article appearing in a USA news agency.

[The Antiyuppie]

Frum Wurst to First!!!! Ja!

[The Antiyuppie]

Oh, they would have incorporated Ukraine, all right...by using it’s occupants as fertilizer.

[Revolting cat!]

Vee alvayz knowed it!

[familyop]

"Alastair Newton,...The question also is, where else would it be? It is hardly likely to be the U.S., given their attitude to the Middle East,...,"

Another worldly limey Lawrence of Arabia speaks.

[dfwgator]

“Don’t Mention the War.”

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe Germany is the nation that Obama is thinking of when he claims it is a fallacy that America is the best nation on Earth.

That or Saudi Arabia.

[Verginius Rufus]

People want to come to America instead of go to Germany because they don't want to have to learn to speak German.

Make people decline adjectives and nouns in English like they do in German...that will keep them out of the US!

[RandallFlagg]

Germany Is The 'Most Popular Country in the World' (BBC Polling)

That's what happens when ya bomb Pearl Harbor.

[Jim Noble]

I'd like to hear an explanation

Morgen die ganze Welt

[Verginius Rufus]

The idea that Slavs were subhuman was a key part of Hitler's ideology. It doesn't get as much attention as his attitude toward the Jews since he didn't try to kill all the Slavs--although the total number of Slavs who died prematurely between 1939 and 1945 because Hitler invaded their countries (soldiers and civilians, directly shot or died in bombing raids or concentration camps or died of starvation) was a lot higher than the 6 million Jews whose deaths he was responsible for.

Hitler wanted to colonize the fertile grain-producing areas of Eastern Europe with Germans. That would be at the expense of Poles and Ukrainians.

That some Ukrainians initially welcomed the Germans was because of how badly they had been treated by Stalin (upwards of 3 million killed by starvation thanks to his policies in the 1930s), and perhaps ignorance of what the Nazi ideology was. It might have made sense for Hitler to treat the captive nations of the USSR well, but it would have gone contrary to his ideology. From a practical perspective, the Holocaust itself was stupid--killing healthy productive people for no reason beyond an obsession in Hitler's own mind.