Posted on 11/26/2005 2:05:37 AM PST by baystaterebel
BERLIN -- A multimillion-dollar campaign to boost Germans' low self-confidence has backfired after it emerged that its slogan was coined by the Nazis. The $34 million "Du Bist Deutschland -- You Are Germany" -- campaign was devised to inspire Germans to stop moaning and do something good for their country. Beethoven, Einstein and the sports stars Franz Beckenbauer and Michael Schumacher have been cited in advertisements encouraging Germans to take more pride in their homeland. But a historian from Ludwigshafen has provoked an uproar with his discovery that the same "Du Bist Deutschland" cry was used at Nazi rallies in the 1930s.
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Balanced matter? You hopefully aren´t saying that we are showing the Nazi history too negative?? What was good between 1933-45???
Don´t know why you´re telling me that. Really. I´m so cool, even snow in my hand wouldn´t melt ;-).
Oh yeah, it's the Turks who do that.
Yes.
Ok, dissolve your armed forces immediately. Ban the police, the firefighters and teamwork in offices. Don´t allow people to found families, since all these are in a way collectivist - just like a nation.
You are part of the whole. Be it your co-workers, your family, your platoon or the army, your colleagues at work or simply your fellow citizens. You contribute to their (and thus your) failure or success.
If you haven´t understood the message yet, then I suggest you to emigrate or walk on a mountain where you can live fully independant from others.
"Balanced matter? You hopefully aren´t saying that we are showing the Nazi history too negative?? What was good between 1933-45???"
Not at all. History is best remembered in the form of facts. Speculation on what caused the facts is useful, but facts count.
It is true the the victors get to write history, but after the research must drift towards the facts.
So to sift the speculation from the facts is key. I have studied history all my life and there is one thing I have found to be true, the best you get is a timeline- what is filled in between the time lines and the background information must be factual. People get all emotional about historical matters when what is needed is truthful accounting of what happened when. The why and wherefore are matters left to speculation & opinion.
All I am saying really is that it is now possible for the humblest person to read any number of web-sites on the time period 1933-1945 in Europe. What is missing is that in teaching in public schools, here as well as there that more often than not, no one teaches the difference between fact and opinion.
Except for the notion of "teamwork" in the office--which I would gladly see disappear--they aren't, or don't have to be.
The U.S. military consists of independent individuals who have voluntarily chosen armed service as a career. They are not there because they have been drafted by force, nor because they have been coaxed into joining by collectivist propaganda. They are there because they know freedom is worth defending--and freedom, by the way, is the very opposite of collectivist rule.
American police officers are also independent individuals, who know that crime is wrong and have decided to make their living by putting this conviction into action. Unlike the police employed by some other governments, they are not there to enforce the will of some tyrant claiming to represent the collective, nor some tyrannical jumble of laws passed by a bureaucracy in the name of the collective.
An American firefighter is an independent individual too; nothing demonstrated this fact clearer than the heroism of New York City firemen on 9/11/01. In a kind of emergency no one had ever seen before and thus no one had a chance to prepare them for, they did not wait around helplessly to be given orders by their superiors, nor did they ask for a meeting to be convened where they would collectively decide what was to be done. Each of them made his independent judgment of what was the right thing to do, and did it.
A well-functioning family is one whose members see and respect each other as individuals. Saying "Honey, would you be so kind as to do this for me?" affirms an atmosphere of mutual good will, while demanding that "You must do this for the family!!" only leads to mutual resentment.
And as for a nation--well, America is THE nation of independent individuals!
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