Another anecdotal story along those lines that I heard many years ago:
A Lufthanza jet was on the tarmac preparing to taxi out to the runway. He called the tower for instructions in German, not English as required. The tower quickly passed on to him that he needed to use English for any radio transmissions.
The German pilot objected: “I’m a German pilot, flying a plane owned by a German company and on German soil. Why CAN’T I use German?”
Out of the electronic void a reply in a crisp, Oxford accent: “Because you lost the Bloody war mate!”
Don’t know if its true or not, it was passed onto me by a German pilot in the 70s.
Im Deutsche,"zu habst der krieg verloren!"
Heard a similar story about an American couple honeymooning in Niagara falls. They were allowed to get on the "maid of the mist" ahead of a large German tourist group. The germans started complaining loudly to their tour leader asking in their native language why the stupid americans got on first. Not realizing the husband was fluent in german, He turned to the group and said the above which means "because you lost the war!".
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A Pan Am 707 was landing at Heathrow in London and really made a mess of the landing in a high cross wind. After the landing a female voice with a British Accent was heard on the ground control frequency saying, "You girls with Pan Am are lucky. Our captain will not let us land the plane."