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Are you implying it's a WW2 reference? Did not occur to me before I saw your comment.
by opan 1y ago
Are you implying it's a WW2 reference? Did not occur to me before I saw your comment.
- consumer451 1y agoIt was the first thing that came to my mind, even though that referenced Mussolini. But I think about WWII probably too often. Maybe the editor wasn't thinking that at all.
- krapp 1y agoIt would be an odd reference to make since it's usually applied to Mussolini, falsely (it's propaganda, he did not actually make the trains run on time[0].) I suspect in this case it just generally refers to some archetype of efficient modern German infrastructure and engineering. [0]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/stop-saying-mussolini-made-the-trains-run-on-time https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/stop-sayi...