• Treczoks@lemmy.world
    44·
    1 个月前

    I have to admit that this is rather old. So old, in fact, that it does not refer to the Third Reich but the Kaiserreich.

    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 个月前

      That’s better but not that by much. A few years ago Germany raided some very rich and very well-armed wackos who wanted to bring back the Kaiserreich.

        • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 个月前

          German conspiracy wackos and American ones have a lot in common.

          During COVID their bullshit ven diagram was a flat circle.

        • Starb3an@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 个月前

          Yup this was me. I knew it was the third, but it never occurred to me to ask what the other 2 were

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
            2·
            1 个月前

            TBH I knew about the Kaiserreich, but I had to look up the first one myself. It was the Holy Roman Empire. (Which wasn’t really much of a reich, but the Nazis weren’t noted for their attention to historical accuracy)

        • Treczoks@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 个月前

          I daresay that 99% of “English-speakers” never wasted a thought on why the Third Reich actually was the third.

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
            21·
            1 个月前

            And honestly, it could be that 90% wouldn’t know what the HRE was or who the Kaiser was once you told them. It’s just not a thing that usually comes up in everyday life.

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 个月前

        Never underestimate the incompetence of people, especially in the US, with regards to history. Just look how they are basically trying to recreate Germany’s 1933 at the moment.

    • bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      15·
      1 个月前

      still mentioned twice in the thread. It‘s fucked up how often one would come across Germans casually throwing around Nazi language, looking for confirmation and when not receiving it claiming it’s just innocent fun. HiHiHi

        • bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          1 个月前

          you think people don’t use it in that context?

          also, because you‘re so adamant, I tried to find a source for your claim. I failed. Want to share?

          • Treczoks@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 个月前

            My source is my grandfather, who learned this during his vocational training, which predates the Nazis by quite a few years.