Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed May 21 2025 03:10 pm
Re: Re: Most memorable modern
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed May 21 2025 02:19 pm
>> 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.
DM> I'd heard this too, however, when I visited the Porsche Deutschland R&D
DM> facility (for work) back in 2018, I found: 1. There was much less ethnic
DM> diversity than there is in California (I fit right in and everyone spoke
DM> German to me assuming I was one of them). In a large company like that,
DM> you could literally count the non-whites on your fingers.
DM> 2. Germans didn't take long to bring up Hitler (first lunch in the company
DM> cafeteria in fact) and quietly estol his virtues (economics, as I recall).
DM> I didn't hear/see any anti-semitism however. And no swastiskas, though the
DM> German national eagle symbol (Coat of arms) is prevelant and evoked some
DM> WWII (books/media) flashbacks for me. From what I saw, Germany is a clean,
DM> quaint, beautiful historic country, but the people maybe haven't changed
DM> so much as we're lead to believe in the 80 years since WWII ended.
Interesting to hear about people bringing up Hitler's virtues..
I visited Germany in 1998 and agree, it's a clean and beautiful historic country. I didn't notice anyone bringing up Hitler or anything like that, but that could have just been by chance. I don't recall seeing much diversity there either though (maybe one person of Asian descent), but I'm not sure how much weight I'd put into that.
Nightfox
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