[lbo-talk] Funny Germans...

[C. G. Estabrook]

Marx' rude generalization about Germans (he had others) was substantially
pre-Nazi.

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Long ago I read a piece by Ned Rorem in a Metropolitan Opera program
> that proclaimed, "There is nothing funny about the laughter of
> Germans."
> 
> I guess the Nazi thing makes it ok to make rude generalizations about
> Germans that one would be too embarrassed to make about anyone else.