Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed May 21 2025 02:19 pm

 Re: Re: Most memorable modern
 By: Nightfox to Cougar428 on Wed May 21 2025 09:36 am

>   Re: Re: Most memorable modern
>   By: Cougar428 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Wed May 21 2025 06:24 am
>
>  Co> Yeah - I was stationed there for 7 years in the Army, 2 tours. Germany
>  Co> was a great place in the 80's. I'm sure it's still a great place. Just
>  Co> have to wonder what they think about people still using Hitler as the
>  Co> devil figure for the world.
>
> From what I've heard, anti-semitic stuff is very frowned upon (if not
> illegal) in Germany.  I think people in Germany these days realize how bad
> Hitler's policies were.

I'd heard this too, however, when I visited the Porsche Deutschland R&D facility (for work) back in 2018, I found:
1. There was much less ethnic diversity than there is in California (I fit right in and everyone spoke German to me assuming I was one of them). In a large company like that, you could literally count the non-whites on your fingers.
2. Germans didn't take long to bring up Hitler (first lunch in the company cafeteria in fact) and quietly estol his virtues (economics, as I recall).

I didn't hear/see any anti-semitism however. And no swastiskas, though the German national eagle symbol (Coat of arms) is prevelant and evoked some WWII (books/media) flashbacks for me. From what I saw, Germany is a clean, quaint, beautiful historic country, but the people maybe haven't changed so much as we're lead to believe in the 80 years since WWII ended.
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