I wish Italy would stop being a crybaby. I wish he would kick his bad habit of wanting to eat pasta everywhere. I wish he would stop getting a stomachache every time he ate geleto. I wish he would learn to throw a grenade properly. I wish his older brother would stop trying to punch me. I wish-"
*babble babble babble*
"Germany . . . That's impossible . . .
Tags: stars italy dying germany wishing babbling imposible
If you invest all your energy in economics, world commerce, parliamentarianism, military engagements, power and power politics, -if you take the quantum of intelligence, seriousness, will, and self-overcoming that you embody and expend it all in this one direction, there there won't be any left for the other direction. Culture and the state - let us be honest with ourselves - these are adversaries.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: economics culture germany
I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I was Christian – I’d been an atheist since I was five. But my father, a Congregational minister, had some sympathy with the idea that the Jews had killed Christ. But any indoctrination was offset by my discovery of the concentration camps, of the Final Solution. Whilst the term 'Holocaust' had yet to enter the vocabulary I was overwhelmed by my realisation of what Germany had perpetrated on Jews. It became a major factor in my movement towards the political left. I’d already read 'The Grapes of Wrath' by John Steinbeck, the Penguin paperback that would change my life. The story of the gas chambers completed the process of radicalisation and would, just three years later, lead me to join the Communist Party.
Phillip AdamsTags: politics sympathy atheist antisemitism holocaust awareness communism germany jews father communist minister steinbeck the-grapes-of-wrath concentration-camps final-solution john-steinbeck christ-killers christian-church communist-party congregational-minister gas-chambers
(Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for you: you can't touch a hair on my head without the will of God my Father, because He is on my side.
Diet EmanTags: wwii god prison holocaust jesus-christ germany dutch righteous
Tell me bout this caveman with the clam moustache been barkin speeches all over Germany.
Esi EdugyanI would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners.
Edmund IronsideTags: history world-war-ii germany britain
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has several times made statements to the effect that we Europeans should not cultivate a superficial anti-Americanism.
But mine isn't superficial at all.
Personally I have nothing against the US itself - it's a beautiful country - it's the people who live there that are the problem.
I guess you could say it's the same thing with Bavaria.
Tags: humor politics humour comedy germany stand-up anti-american cabaret
There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.
Erik LarsonTags: history war world-war-ii germany biography hitler
These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make a patchwork of green in odd corners of urban land, along train lines or canals or, as here, in the lee of the Wall.
Anna FunderTags: history germany gardens berlin anecdotes anecdote berlin-wall
I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.
Anna FunderTags: purpose freedom calm germany anxiety trains gdr anna-funder rhymn
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