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If everything German reminds you of the Nazis, you're going to have to get used to being reminded of the Nazis an awful lot. And that's on you, not people who

• dgreensp 12y ago
  I didn't have the same reaction, but I get the reference. Quoting Wikipedia: >The term Übermensch was used frequently by Hitler and the Nazi regime to describe their idea of a biologically superior Aryan or Germanic master race;[13] a form of Nietzsche's Übermensch became a philosophical foundation for the National Socialist ideas. Their conception of the Übermensch, however, was racial in nature.[14][15] The Nazi notion of the master race also spawned the idea of "inferior humans" (Untermenschen) which could be dominated and enslaved; this term does not originate with Nietzsche.
  • mariuolo 12y ago
    So every time you read "over" you think of overlord?
    • schoen 12y ago
      That might be true for someone who didn't speak much English and was very familiar with the Allied invasion of Normandy.
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• Htsthbjig 12y ago
  You think so? I speak German and travel around the world quite a bit, German is probably the language I use the least, by far. I use Spanish and English a lot, in Africa with English and French you can get by. In Asia you find written Chinese a lot(common to China, Japan, and Korea), English in India(so many languages there).
  • allendoerfer 12y ago
    In most cases, this should actually cause bad reputation for the countries, these languages originated. The difference is, that England and other countries glorify things, they fucked up in the past.