>From: gma <gma@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>appleb@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> Forgive me, but the title of this thread is pretty offensive.
>
>I don't speak German. Can you translate so I can determine if I should
>be offended too?
Literally, "Germany, over all," which by itself might not seem terribly
offensive, but "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles" was the title and
chorus of a Nazi propaganda song, so the allusion is unsettling, and I
could see how it might be offensive.
: Jan Steinman <mailto:jans@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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