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u/Unexpected-ModTeam 13d ago

Your post is a frequent repost

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u/signmeupnot 13d ago

Rick Gerweiss

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u/Nizzemancer 13d ago

Reichard Gerweiss

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u/anon-mally 13d ago

Reich heirweiss

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u/Emotional-Engineer35 👨🏿‍🎓 Only slightly tainted 13d ago

Reinhard Gerheissdrich

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u/Parkour-Ripper 13d ago

Reichenhard Gerheissdrichkeitenmorgen

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u/Pro_Scrub 13d ago

Richtig Gesundheit

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u/Comfortable-Can4776 13d ago

Sieg

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u/CorianderIsBad 13d ago

You're not fooling me a second time comrade.

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u/slipperier_slope 13d ago

thats just their seig-nature

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u/Shadow_Hound_117 13d ago

Oh heil nah

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u/Alekillo10 13d ago

What do you mean by комгдd?

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u/yesweyolo 13d ago

What about a third Reich? I mean time...

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u/tskank69 13d ago

That’s what I was gonna say. He looks so similar

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u/FrankNitty_Enforcer 13d ago

And it’s perfectly on brand for something he would do

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u/ThisIsARobot 13d ago

Gervais would lose his fucking mind if he could trick a room full of Germans to say "Sieg Heil".

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u/ScarlettStingray085 13d ago

LMAO. Thank you for the much needed laugh

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u/WillKillz 13d ago

Jesus, how old is Ricky Gervais?

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u/Mr_Brandalf 13d ago

Ricky Gervais and Tom Hanks fusion

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u/Bou_Czang 13d ago

Now all I can think about is them lovemaking... Thanks for that.

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u/Tru-Queer 13d ago

Try imagining Gilbert Gottfried eating out Fran Drescher while they’re both stoned and inhaled helium

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u/popeboyQ 13d ago

How'd you find my journal?

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u/Tru-Queer 13d ago

Your journal was written on the pages of my heart

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u/popeboyQ 13d ago

You might want to get a doctor to look at that.

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u/Tru-Queer 13d ago

Oh, Mr Sheffield!

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u/_Tactleneck_ 13d ago

Gilbert voice:

“Oh yeah, do you like that? Huh? Do you enjoy when I “-

Goddamnit I couldn’t even finish it without disgusting myself

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u/manonthemoonrocks 13d ago

Notice all the serious faces in the crowd. Specially the old men.

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u/Ekul13 13d ago

First thing I noticed too, this dude is poking fun at something a lot of people took super super seriously for a big part of their lives.

He's definitely got some balls!

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u/ReapCreep65 13d ago

This reminds me of that one Bo Burnham bit where he tricked his whole crowd into saying the n-word

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u/Slippery_Slug 13d ago

That's interesting because the Bo Burnham bit reminded this guy of this video.

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u/GiveToOedipus 13d ago

And the cycle continues.

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u/Salty_Dornishman 13d ago

Macaroni and ____

Peanut butter and ______

Salt and vi_____

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u/Knife_Operator 13d ago

Yeah but that wasn't the self-own for the crowd that this is.

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u/WeHaveAllBeenThere 13d ago

He wasn’t saying it was.. he just said it reminded him of it.

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u/talentheturtle 13d ago

Not "Repeat Stuff"?

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u/ReapCreep65 13d ago

That too

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u/Jadedinsight 13d ago

That doesn't translate to "that is not allowed", but more to something like "you've got to be kidding me"

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u/Haunting-Ad9521 13d ago

When I searched Google, it said this was around the 1970s, roughly 25yrs after the fall of Nazi Germany, so I think he’s probably partially correct with his last statement about former comrades in the crowd.

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u/bozzy253 13d ago

VAT

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u/RuthaBrent 13d ago

Ich weiß, das ist sehr lustig

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u/rlysuck 13d ago

So what is the Ziggy zaggy saying that the man show always said? What does it mean?

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u/Last_Friday_Knight 13d ago

Zigge zagge is basically “a toast to friendship/fellowship/coziness”

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u/MonaganX 13d ago

People saying it might have those feelings while saying it but it doesn't really mean anything in particular. It's just a call and response "battle cry" that people use to hype each other up while drinking, partying, sometimes sports. It's like a generic, nonsensical "when I say X, you say X".

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u/Chubbstock 13d ago

Might as well be yee haw

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u/jwccs46 13d ago

YeeHaw is the lynchpin of American English

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u/RuthaBrent 13d ago

That and don’t forget Prost! Gotta love German culture

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u/RobSpaghettio 13d ago edited 13d ago

I Googled what prost meant to show my friends in Bali early March 2020 one time because a beer there was called Prost. I knew what it meant in Germany having been a brewing student, but Google translate decided that day that it was Romanian and meant dumbass lol.

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u/Phil__Spiderman 13d ago

Admittedly, their culture has had a few rough spots.

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u/broly78210 13d ago

You always have to listen to the whole sentence to understand mip

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u/template009 13d ago

Zicke Zacke Hoi Hoi Hoi

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u/ReadySteady_GO 13d ago

Now, girls jumping on trampolines!

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u/jseqtor12 13d ago

It's an Oktoberfest chant sometimes

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u/atbths 13d ago

All the times.

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u/Bananafish1929 13d ago

When I lived there, it amazed me how every local’s grandparents were in the “resistance.”

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u/mortalitylost 13d ago

But who did you resist, Hans? WHO did you resist??

Answer me HANS

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u/CrymsonStarite 13d ago

I lived with a host family when I was there, older couple. In Ostfriesland. The husband was born in ‘39, and he spoke very openly about how his dad was in the Kriegsmarine, has pictures of him with the armband, the whole thing. Honestly was kinda fascinating how open some people were that it happened, and how much they (at least the older people) were adamant it should never happen again. His dad went into merchant shipping afterwards, he survived the war.

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u/buckydean 13d ago

I have an older friend who lived in Germany in the 70's. He said in the smaller towns there was a division between the WW2 veterans. A lot of average soldiers that were conscripted into the Wehrmacht looked down on the more zealous SS/NAZI party people even all those years later

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u/CrymsonStarite 13d ago

Fair, everyone was conscripted in the later part of the war, very different from the fanatics. My host always joked (he had a dark sense of humor) he was only four years away from getting conscripted so he was glad the Allies won… he would have been 10. Funny guy, liked his American bourbon.

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u/Stupid_Triangles 13d ago

let the starving wolves eat themselves.

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u/MooFz 13d ago

Even in the Netherlands, all my friend's grandparents were in the resistance somehow

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u/RuthaBrent 13d ago

I know right. Lol; at least they’ve apologized and have taught their children better.

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u/Bananafish1929 13d ago

What’s amazing was in 2020 Germany was cool with Americans leaving…. I wonder what happened since 2020 to make the Gerry’s change their mind?

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u/RuthaBrent 13d ago

Gerry’s?

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u/K22333 13d ago

Actually "Jerries" Sauce: I’m a Brit…

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u/Gold_Firefighter_448 13d ago

A term for Germans. Kinda like calling British people "Brits"

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u/RuthaBrent 13d ago

Ah danke

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u/Historical_Flight_92 13d ago

Ehh I lived in Northern Bavaria for a few years. Old people were pretty open about being nazis. Lots were even proud.

Fucking cunts. So glad I don't live there anymore.

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u/muschisushi 13d ago

Dont say it, Bamberg?

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u/cdigioia 13d ago edited 13d ago

And every American was against the 2nd Iraqi war!

Obviously dramatically different levels of things here, but similar phenomenon.

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u/Maxcorps2012 13d ago

You can tell he didn't think it would work and is horrified.

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u/Fine_Reserve_7154 13d ago

You can see him saying something after covering his mouth with his hand, right after.

Probably the german equivalent of wtf.

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u/OkRefrigerator8562 13d ago

"Das darf doch nicht wahr sein" would be translated to "this can't be real" very similar to wtf, but is wrongly subtitled as "that is not allowed"

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u/Fine_Reserve_7154 13d ago

The more you know.

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u/AyBawss 13d ago

🌈⭐

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u/Consistent_Effective 13d ago

"That can't be true. What! So many old comrades here tonight"

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u/Dr_Hiasl 13d ago

But in the end he was talking about "so many old comrades here, unbelievable..." Source: speak german

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u/Fine_Reserve_7154 13d ago

Taking into account the video is subtitled, am I being wooooooshed right here?

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u/Dr_Hiasl 13d ago

Youre not being whooshed, but the subtitles arent rlly that accurate, he doesnt say "thats not allowed" for example, he says something like "this cant be true" The tone in which he says the last sentence is kinda weird, just my interpretationno offense

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u/elscallr 13d ago

Kinda like we'd say "no fucking way" or, for the Boondock Saints fans, "I can't believe that just fucking happened!"

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u/StefanL88 13d ago

I don't remember that movie having 6 million dead cats.

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u/Glor_167 13d ago

if you watch it enough times it do

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u/Fine_Reserve_7154 13d ago

So, basically we're 50/50 about the comrade remark being ironic or not.

I agree that the line delivery is a bit ambiguous.

Dw, no offense taken.

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u/locaton 13d ago

It is definitely ironic. Considering this kind of show setting in German television he could have never meant it not uronically I would say. If you said something like this in German offical TV your act would immediately get cancelled.

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u/arathorn867 13d ago

They speak German, they can't read English so they didn't know that was in the subtitles

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u/Rhoshack 13d ago

They can type in English but can’t read it?

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u/arathorn867 13d ago

Clearly, there's no other explanation.

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u/Rhoshack 13d ago

I’m cool with it.

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u/WeHaveAllBeenThere 13d ago

I’m glad this thread didn’t continue to confuse me

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u/DagonPie 13d ago

Something something google translate? Maybe? Idk man

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u/Ronnie_999 13d ago

They can't read English? Clever of them to be able to write in English then.

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u/VitaminPb 13d ago

If they ever find out what they wrote, though…

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u/Pucked_Off_Canuck 13d ago

It means they can write in English but proofreading is verboten.

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u/btoxic 13d ago

They've only ever known how to write that one exact sentence.

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u/Beautiful-End3611 13d ago edited 13d ago

No, he knew precisely that it would work. He moves before the “heil” even comes. This is edgy comedy at its best. Surprised to see it coming from a German though as they’re not known for having a sense of humor.

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u/OBD-1_Kenobi 13d ago

How many Germans does it take to screw in a light bulb?

One. Germans are very efficient and not very funny.

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u/cawclot 13d ago edited 13d ago

Germans are very efficient and not very funny.

Reminds me of the time Robin Williams was on a German talk show...

Host: Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?

Robin: Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?'

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u/exploding_cat_wizard 13d ago

Great burn, not the least cause it's true. The amount of brilliant culture workers that left Germany or were killed by the fuckers...

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u/Randolpho 13d ago

Surprised to see it coming from a German though as they’re not known for having a sense of humor.

Germans are very serious about their humor

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u/Sundiata1 13d ago

I mean, the joke is to get everyone to heil, so it’s a special joke Germans can respond well to.

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u/locaton 13d ago

I always wonder if the Germans have no humor thing is really true or if it's just that Germans have a kind of humor that many people don't understand. I Could be a bit biased since I'm German though haha

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u/ThatOneGuy1294 13d ago

My understanding is that German humor is much more about the cleverness of a joke as a whole, rather than how funny a punchline is.

"Sieg Heil" just isn't funny as the punchline, but is hilarious when you get a crowd of Germans to accidentally say it.

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u/LiftAxe 13d ago

I lived in Germany for 12 years(Saarland) they like to laugh and have a good time, I had to be accepted before they opened up, then I truly understood what they are all about. I learned a-lot about myself there, If you make a friend in Germany you have a friend for life, they will really give you the shirt off their back.

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u/locaton 13d ago

That's great to hear! I'm glad you had a good time in Germany! :)

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u/klanny 13d ago

He’s a comedian, comedians know how to put on a show. Why is it most people on here act as if they’ve never seen anybody act or perform before.

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u/Shady_Mania 13d ago

Someone’s blind. Dude was clearly feigning shock for comedy. He’s literally smiling.

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u/Maxcorps2012 13d ago

Since I can't speak German I can't verify if that is the closest translation.

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u/Danghor 13d ago

It’s pretty much the literal translation of it.

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u/Maxcorps2012 13d ago

Anyone else speak German that can verify?

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u/davidfavorite 13d ago

Literally he said: „that cant be real, what?!“. Pretty much the 1960 equivalent of wtf

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u/RicardoMyBoiii 13d ago

what did he say?

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u/Daffan 13d ago

Lol what are you talking about, that's not the expression at all.

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u/Nizzemancer 13d ago

Old habits die hard

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u/helpnxt 13d ago

I mean it must be weird going from being conditioned into always replying with a certain phrase after another is said to then almost over night it not being allowed, like that conditioning wouldn't just go away.

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u/deliamount 13d ago

It doesn't. I hadn't been to a catholic church in decades until a funeral a couple of years ago. Even trying my hardest not to, I did slip out the response to one of the priest's lines. After all that time it still came out unthinkingly.

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u/myee8 13d ago

This was from the early 70s. Not surprising when you look at the age of the crowd, probably like a muscle memory type of thing to say too.

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u/Durtonious 13d ago

Scrolled way too far down for this, definitely fits the title though.

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u/Dakine_thing 13d ago

Well it’s a Catchy slogan obviously

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u/PrettymuchSwiss 13d ago

Summing up nazi indoctrination in one sentence.

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u/___DEADPOOL______ 13d ago

Catchy slogans, cool costumes, and crazy lore. That's how the Nazis get ya

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u/randomguyonreddit678 13d ago

And people say Germans aren’t funny.

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u/Horse0nSauce 13d ago

Wer hat gesagt, dass Deutsche nicht lustig sind?

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u/ManInBlack829 13d ago To The Stars

Some rats got squashed by the exterminators

Some rats scurried to remote parts of the globe

Some rats were able to hide in plain sight, by pretending they were a mouse just doing what they were told

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u/aBoyandHisVacuum 13d ago

This is fun and interesting, may i ask where its from?

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u/Till_Bill 13d ago

Definitely not a cat

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u/ITeachAndIWoodwork 13d ago

It sounds like a quote from Maus but idk

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u/PrincessBucketFeet 13d ago

In Maus the Germans were cats.

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u/ManInBlack829 13d ago

I'm flattered, I just came up with it.

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u/Deadpool2715 13d ago

It’s honestly a very good quote 👏

it’s a little pessimistic because it’s possible some mice did just do what they were told, but the truth is it’s very likely some rats did exactly as you said and it’s important not to forget.

Maybe try adding a “waiting for more rats to return” but it might ruin the balance and poignancy

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u/ManInBlack829 13d ago

I grew up with a grandma who was a nurse during WW2, so I have a lot of generational trauma instilled in me.

The pessimism is intentional. All Nazis are rats.

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u/hugothebear 13d ago

Abraham Lincolns

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u/randomguyonreddit678 13d ago

All 2684 Abraham Lincolns or a specific number of them?

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u/humanitarianWarlord 13d ago

These weren't die hard nazis, these were regular people who were indoctrinated during ww2, "heil hitler" has been pushed so hard into their heads it's permanently lodged in their brain to respond like that.

It's almost instinctual for them, they just respond automatically as they would have during ww2.

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u/Twixt_Wind_and_Water 13d ago edited 13d ago

That’s too rational for Reddit.

It’s easy for someone who has never lived under the threat of death if they don’t toe the line to judge people who had to toe the line… or die.

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u/The-Gamersaurs48 13d ago

A lot of people like to claim claim otherwise, but the reality is they’d react just like them.

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u/Twixt_Wind_and_Water 13d ago

No diggity, no doubt.

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u/Past-Background-7221 13d ago

I like the way you worked that.

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u/GunsBlazing10 13d ago

Oh, quit with your far-right propaganda! Do you know about the Tolerance Paradox? There are studies that prove it to be true [link].

Studies prove that people of your identity are structurally intolerant [link]. Studies also link hate crimes with unchecked free speech. Therefore, I'm banning from this subreddit if you disagree.

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u/Pixelwind 13d ago

More likely it's a little of column A & a little of column B.

Most nazis went free after the war and just went about their lives. Lots of normal people also were conditioned into acting that way for self preservation. But given a room of people this size you'd statistically expect a fair number of each unless it's specifically people of jewish descent or something where none (or very few) would be former nazis. Germany still has a very large white supremacy problem specifically due to never holding them accountable on an individual level. The laws they made help but they didn't make the nazis physically go away. They're still there, they just can't get away with what they want to.

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u/auyemra 13d ago

didn't they just recently make an attempt to overthrow the current government?

& failed miserably

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u/Pixelwind 13d ago

Might be true, but might not, the vast majority of nazis never had anything happen to them. Only a small number were ever tried, and most just went back to their lives after the war.

On a statistical level it's pretty fair to assume that the response in the video is likely a mix of people who were/are actually nazis and people who have just been conditioned to respond that way.

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u/___DEADPOOL______ 13d ago

This is the same thing with people raised Catholic. Call and response ques are hard to eliminate from your brain.

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u/Shadowoperator7 13d ago

I would argue this is more showing how deep Nazi indoctrination went

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u/dreamdaddy123 13d ago

It sounds like a quote from hunters

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u/OperaGhostAD 13d ago

The first season of that show was so damn brilliant.

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u/RuthaBrent 13d ago

He probably mumbled scheisse under his breath lol

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u/Nilshrling 13d ago

wie zum fick kommt man von "das darf doch nicht wahr sein" auf "thats not allowed"?

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u/Sk-yline1 13d ago

All of those people in the audience spent over a decade being Nazis, some by force, many by choice, it’s not surprising they’d sieg heil by instinct

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u/JohnnyBoy11 13d ago

I remember seeing a sad video of someone's grandma with dementia who thought it was time to do the HH at family dinner.

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u/OblongAndKneeless 13d ago

TIL the Man Show "cheer" is from Germany: https://youtu.be/f95MrqxJMBY?t=1241

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u/OblongAndKneeless 13d ago

Of course they all are mispronouncing "Zicke Zacke Hoi Hoi Hoi"

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u/Heathen_Mushroom 13d ago

They do have an accent.

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u/hellothere066 13d ago

When was this filmed? Anyone know?

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u/WayfaringStranger16 13d ago

1973 I believe

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u/MiloReyes-97 13d ago

36 years after everything happened huh. Might be too soon for some but eh, sometimes a dark joke can be used to vent societal anxiety. But fucking hell I can only imagine the men and woman I that audience that were swearing bullets 0_0.

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u/Chi_Cazzo_Sei 13d ago

1973, it shows in the first few seconds.

I would certainly bet that crowd included literal nazis who were hiding in plain sight in West Germany.

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u/Doreen666 13d ago

"hiding in plain sight"

what did you expect them to do almost 30 years after the war

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u/MiloReyes-97 13d ago

Well its funny, despite the de-nazification that the allies first implemented working out pretty well, when reconstruction really started moving it became clear to the allies that any hope in rebuilding Germany into a strong enough partner, government structure needed to be reestablished....and the only people left who were qualified and available were former nazi party members.

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u/marquecz 13d ago

I've seen it as a reel on Instagram and iirc it said it was in early 70s.

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u/RuthaBrent 13d ago

Long enough ago that the old Kameradin were still alive.

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u/unexBot 13d ago

OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:

crowd of Germans are baited by a man to say seig hiel.


Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.


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u/Soggy-Swordfish-7773 13d ago

They did nazi that coming

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u/RuthaBrent 13d ago

Aghhh!!!

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u/Terry8675 13d ago

You can tell he is Fuhrer-ious with them for it.

I'm shook my head 😡 in disbelief, nein nein nein

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u/Professorplumsgun 13d ago

I was caught off guard, like Poland in 1939

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u/hisDudeness1989 13d ago

Why does this guy look like the German Wayne Gacy ? Lol

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u/furrynoy96 13d ago

Who is this guy?

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u/Distubabius 13d ago

Jonny Buchardt

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u/night4life 13d ago

Klassiker

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u/yaboiskeemus 13d ago

Done got played

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u/IGNORE_ME_PLZZZZ 13d ago

Comedy and tragedy are part and parcel

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u/TheRealActaeus 13d ago

Oh snap. Those old guys didn’t hesitate.

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u/lordnyrox 13d ago

The ones who are not smiling are the ones that worry me the most.

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