Horton

[bongodriver]

btw, why does "Iceberg" contain the german word berg, aka "mountain"? It is "Eisberg" in german

English is a Germanic language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language yes it's wikipedia but it was a quick link and I don't see much to dispute.

The "alien, superhuman" references playing on the Aryan masterrace bullocks is just the tip of the iceberg.

Well you obviously haven't appreciated that there's people around...(not necessarily German) who really do push that idea around.

let's Blitz Fritz, eh?=)

Bally good show! what what!

Just that we did not blame the french...well, for that at least.
Generally though I think blaming France is fine.

I have seen it myself in other threads, I recall one famous MB avro thread in particular where the start of war was litterally justified on the basis that the treaty was a humiliation to Germany....effectively blaming the French for the start of WWII but forgetting why the treaty was made in the first place, and to cap it all look what happened the minute the treaty was contravened.

UK folks mostly blame themselves for the Empire

Interesting, I don't have the same experience.......but was the Empire really a bad thing? volcanoes kill people but they are what shape this planet, and back in that day and age Empirism was an innevitability, the civilised world had a hunger for expansion and they were willing to take resources from what they considered savages....so much has changed , India may have been able to enjoy a space programme without the British empire ever existing but you can bet your ass it would have been because of someone elses empire.

I do not think German innovation is limited to WW2, And I think that is what rubs a lot of Germans the wrong way these days.

Absolutely it's not, but here on a forum based on a WWII sim on a discussion about German wartime develpoment at that time?

Well, I guess modesty is a culturally very relative term =)
Are those numbers correct, though?

Here modesty means not 'bragging' or 'boasting' or other means of showing off particular attributes, to preserve ones modesty is to remain clothed or covered, I guess you believe the Brits have a tendency to brag about our higher moral stance with regards to the war etc, but we certainly don't brag about superior we are or crap like that, the British mentality is very much the 'plucky underdog' in that regard.

I have no idea how correct those numbers are, all I can say is I found no urge to immediately challenge them based on any feelings of innadequacy.