[Rabid Dog]

We do business in Austria and Germany and you are dead on correct. It is a verboten subject - nobody talks about unless they know you really well - it is not casual conversation by any stretch. And those that will talk about it are also the ones that will tell you that pockets of Nazism (old school) still exist in at least Germany.

[PJ-Comix]

We do business in Austria and Germany and you are dead on correct. It is a verboten subject - nobody talks about unless they know you really well - it is not casual conversation by any stretch.

Correct. Every society has its taboo subjects. As mentioned before, you will never hear an older white Southerner wax nostalgic about the segregation era. Once, when the Soviets were still in power, I met a Soviet official in DC and he froze when I brought up either the name of Trotsky or Stalin.

[PJ-Comix]

Did you ever see the movie Das Boot? I thought it interesting because it was a German made movie about WWII which is still a taboo subject over there. They concentrated on the U-Boat crew but if you notice the scene of the U-Boat leaving port, the taboo was still strong enough for the film makers to show the German Nazi flag hanging limp on the ship's flagstaff so the swastika couldn't be shown.

[PJ-Comix]

For a long time the subject of Evita and Juan Peron were taboo in Argentina. When the play Evita opened here, many Argentines visted the states just to see the play because it was taboo in Argentina. And Colombians in the USA consider any talk (jokes) about drug trafficking to be taboo. Once I joked to a Columbian couple that the name of the president of Columbia was Marco Traficante. They were NOT amused and neither was any other Columbian that I told that joke to. Try talking about the drug trafficking problems in Columbia to any Columbian and they will try to change the subject.