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* Jane Elliott, about the "social experiment" of racism she first performed with third-graders and continues to perform with college students, stated in the documentary ''The Angry Eye'', "I didn't invent this exercise. I learned this from Adolf Hitler." |
* Jane Elliott, about the "social experiment" of racism she first performed with third-graders and continues to perform with college students, stated in the documentary ''The Angry Eye'', "I didn't invent this exercise. I learned this from Adolf Hitler." |
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* The ''Swiss'' army wore field-gray during World War II. And despite recent controversy there was a fair chance Switzerland could have ended up at war with Germany and indeed they had several air skirmishes. If the Germans had invaded(as indeed they spent much of the time preparing for, including preparing to blow their railway tunnels and thus make invasion not worth the bother)It would be a choice whether one is putting on the Reich or putting on the Helvetica. |
* The ''Swiss'' army wore field-gray during World War II. And despite recent controversy there was a fair chance Switzerland could have ended up at war with Germany and indeed they had several air skirmishes. If the Germans had invaded(as indeed they spent much of the time preparing for, including preparing to blow their railway tunnels and thus make invasion not worth the bother)It would be a choice whether one is putting on the Reich or putting on the Helvetica. |
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* One of the funniest ironies is that in 1948 the newly founded IAF went to battle in Messerschmitts. For the obvious reason that Israel had to [[Combat Pragmatist|get arms where they could get them]] and worrying over the fact that they [[Captain Obvious|don't like Germans]] was not important. |
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