REUTERS - German tennis has responded with outrage after the United States Tennis Association made the embarrassing error of playing the Nazi-era version of Germany's national anthem during a Federation Cup tie in Hawaii.
The version played included the first stanza, beginning "Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles," which was used as Nazi propaganda. It was dropped after World War Two.
"I thought it was the epitome of ignorance, and I've never felt more disrespected in my whole life, let alone in Fed Cup," Germany's Andrea Petkovic was reported as saying, adding that she considered walking off court before the singles match against Alison Riske.
German team coach Barbara Ritter said the mistake was "an absolute scandal, a disrespectful incident and inexcusable".
The USTA tweeted its apologies, saying "The USTA extends a sincere apology to the German Fed Cup team & fans 4 the outdated National Anthem. This mistake will not occur again."
Now The Germans Are Angry With Us!
Now The Germans Are Angry With Us!
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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- "...the epitome of ignorance..."
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
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Re: Now The Germans Are Angry With Us!
They should have just gone with the instrumental version...the United States Tennis Association made the embarrassing error of playing the Nazi-era version of Germany's national anthem
It is after all, the same tune...
This reminds me of a funny story from the Carter years...
When Jimah was visiting India, the Indian National Orchestra wanted to play a tribute to the American President with a tune mentioning his native state when he arrived...
They could have picked Georgia On My Mind, or Sweet Georgia Brown...
But no, they serenaded the President's arrival with Marching Through Georgia...
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Re: Now The Germans Are Angry With Us!
I thought it was the legend — Der Inbegriff der Unwissenheit — on Trump's family escutcheon.Econoline wrote:Isn't that our new national motto?
In German, of course, so it looks more impressive.
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
Re: Now The Germans Are Angry With Us!
It's rubato's main aspiration....Econoline wrote:Isn't that our new national motto?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”