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[danbeaver]

And I would not be too worried  about translating your messages to German.
There are far more Germans that speak English than Englishman that speak German.

Hmm, possibly a result of events that occurred on 7-MAY-1945?

[danbeaver]

Iggy,

Ever actually been to Germany?  America has the largest number of military bases and personnel there outside the USA. It has the largest American military hospital outside the US as well. While the Germans hate the US for being there, to do commerce with 227 bases and 40,000 servicemen plus their families, they have a better than average knowledge of English.  Why is the US there as opposed to the Germans military being in Delaware?  It does have to do with the outcome of WWII.  Sweep it under the rug if you want, but those who forget history are bound to repeat it.

[danbeaver]

I do not believe that cliche for one second.

Or can't remember it?

[danbeaver]

History books are filled with wars, they are not forgotten, yet still there are more wars, every year there are wars being waged around the world.
History teaches us why we need to have another war.

History only teaches those who pay attention. It has nothing to do with war; and prejudice and WWII went hand-in-hand. The realities of that period in time did not prevent any war, but what we learned from the treaty of Versailles lead to the Marshall plan.  It did not slow the progress of hate, persecution, racism nor genocide, but defined them in global terms -- we simply can identify these more easily.

[danbeaver]

Er...

English is German at it's core;  read some "Old English"  and see.  The song "Auld Lang Syne" is German (spelled better) as Alt  Lange Zeit.  The UK or Britain either got invaded (Romans, Normans --  "Norse Men" invading Vikings, ex-colonies -- India, etc.) or had kings  and queens from multiple countries who brought their own language -- German, French, more German.

Germany  on the other hand, prevented this with a lack of street and road signs,  so then when the Romans invaded about 2000 years ago (Augustus 6 BE to 4  AD), they got "lost" and turned around with a few military battles lost  along the way -- likely due to the lack of maps and road signs.  The  same for the American military: once they got into Germany, they  couldn't find their way back out; heck, the Berlin airlift came about as  a way to avoid the roads.  Finally with the advent of GPS navigation  based devices, one can actually go from point "A" to point "B" without  stopping and asking a German person for directions.  The whole concept  of transportation that ignored the German road system (Trains, tanks,  and finally the Autobahn) evolved to get around this obstacle; even today the autobahn is laid out with signs that list the originating city for that piece of autobahn and the end city, with no others listed in between.