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“Wir sind das Volk” – “We are the people”
IBT ^ | Dec. 16, 2014 | Maria Khan

Posted on 12/15/2014 8:12:07 PM PST by LeoWindhorse

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To: stanne

it could be just innate Brit politeness and understatement..


21 posted on 12/15/2014 8:43:35 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: dr_lew

“The People”. Das Volk have a primal claim of place.
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Well when they find stone and flint arrow heads—they are likely made by their ancestors.

Not like here in America.


22 posted on 12/15/2014 8:43:40 PM PST by ckilmer (q)
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To: aquila48

As much as Germany’s past is a stain on that country, and it definitely is;

it is nice to see young Germans finally developing a friggin’ spine again. The right is rising in Germany.


23 posted on 12/15/2014 8:45:48 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

The Germans, Norse folk and ‘Diggers’ how far they have fallen from the Man’s men of old.


24 posted on 12/15/2014 8:45:48 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: hinckley buzzard

So has Hitler so legitimized the Germans that it is immoral for them to defend their homeland against the invading Moslems?

If that’s true— we are worse than dead here in America.


25 posted on 12/15/2014 8:46:01 PM PST by ckilmer (q)
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To: relictele

Americans need to hit the streets—all of us—Millions—shut down the government—a General Strike. If 100 million marched—things would change.


26 posted on 12/15/2014 8:49:12 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: txnativegop

The best German joke is told auf Deutsch:

Warum haben die Franzosen die Champs Elysee mit Baume gekrenzt?

So das die Deutsche Soldaten im Schatten marschieren konnen.


27 posted on 12/15/2014 8:49:48 PM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Afraid I’m going to have to disagree here. Hitler borrowed the idea of Der Volk from Germany’s past and twisted for his own ends.

The abstraction that is Der Volk goes back to von Herder and Fichte of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

But if we use your logic, we can justify the absolute desolation of Massachusetts especially since the Kennedy’s were such big Hitler fans.


28 posted on 12/15/2014 8:50:42 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: txnativegop

“As much as Germany’s past is a stain on that country, and it definitely is...”

They’ve been politically paralyzed by that past - but they may be shedding that huge burden of guilt just in time to save Das Volk.


29 posted on 12/15/2014 8:50:55 PM PST by aquila48
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To: henkster

I like this one better:

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!


30 posted on 12/15/2014 8:55:41 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: henkster

That is just too funny and so very true.

Guten Abend und frohe Wiehnachten.


31 posted on 12/15/2014 8:56:25 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: aquila48

The germans pay their women to have children.

wonder if we could try that here?


32 posted on 12/15/2014 8:59:56 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: txnativegop

Aufstehen! (outstanding!)

CC


33 posted on 12/15/2014 8:59:56 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Tagline Constructon zone- low humor ahead)
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To: Celtic Conservative

if a person didn’t understand German and heard this song; I personally believe they would find it to be a very rousing song, which it is.

it is the german version of Damn the Torpedoes! Full speed ahead! IMO


34 posted on 12/15/2014 9:04:58 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: dfwgator

Mein Hund hat keine Nase!

Wie riecht ihn?

Schrecklich!


35 posted on 12/15/2014 9:05:56 PM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Europe (and to some extent the USA) feels very 1788.
I expect the entrenched government powers of today may provoke a repeat.


36 posted on 12/15/2014 9:08:28 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MrEdd

except this time it will come from the right instead of the left.


37 posted on 12/15/2014 9:10:19 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: txnativegop

It wasn’t the Right in Germany, rather the National Socialist Left.


38 posted on 12/15/2014 9:11:19 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

in 1920s/30s yes, but today? There is a strong push for nationalist ideas right now. The turks and other migrant workers Germany let in after WW2 have almost destroyed the ethnic germans and the german gov’t has finally awakened to that fact.

As far as Naziism goes, that will likely never pop up in Germany again. Today’s germans are not as regimented as the germans of the Nazi period were.


39 posted on 12/15/2014 9:18:04 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: henkster


40 posted on 12/15/2014 9:26:07 PM PST by dfwgator
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