Stereotypes of German people

[The Lawspeaker]

Tuan, that is your version. On wiki I read that they tried to establish hegemony in Indonesia and then I am not surprised by attacks on the Dutch.

I explained to you how the system worked. That raja's there were notorious for not keeping their promises is normal in that part of the world and then we had to send in the hounds and teach them a lesson. You know in that respect they are very much like Germans.

"Holland: the new Reich has endeavored to continue the traditional friendship with Holland;"
Adolf Hitler. 1939.

We now know what the "traditional friendship" is like: just be friendly until the plan can be put into motion. Neutrality ? Who gives a shit !

[ficuscarica]

Tuan, Why would they attack you then? And even if they did attack your trading posts not because you were colonizing them. Are those attacks a reason to colonize them?

I can´t disprove you, as I haven´t credible sources here, but your claims seem to contradict at least wikipedia.

What I have to admit is, that, despite the German attacks on Netherlands maybe being "Karma" for the Netherlands´ past, it was a rather unpleasant German action. While I don´t see much of a problem in Germany invading France (after all France tried to damage Germany whenever it could), the Netherlands surely had not given Germany any reason for an invasion.

The question is whether you go on with hating Germany for it, or choose to get over it, and live something new.

[The Lawspeaker]

Tuan, Why would they attack you then? And even if they did attack your trading posts not because you were colonizing them. Are those attacks a reason to colonize them?

You could have at least looked up Jacatra 1919. Or the cause of the Aceh War.

It was a reason to send troops and teach them a lesson and what was normal in those days: the loser gets the boot. So we squeezed him out afterwards. That was very normal in those days.

[Turkophagos]

[Leliana]

How about: screw Europe.

Says a super moderator of 'The Apricity Forum: A European Cultural Community'.



A European who is so blinded by his mental hate and his yellow fever that he likes to screw the rest of Europe for some chink colonial countries in the far-east. No more questions needed!

Please moderate a forum like http://philippines-addicts.com/

@Criteroh: Shut up and go bankrupt, kthxbye.

[Geminus]

You could have at least looked up Jacatra 1919. Or the cause of the Aceh War.

It was a reason to send troops and teach them a lesson and what was normal in those days: the loser gets the boot. So we squeezed him out afterwards. That was very normal in those days.

But you complain about harsh German countermeasures against partisans in Netherlands
You really often write good posts, but all this is pure hypocrisy from you...

[The Lawspeaker]

But you complain about harsh German countermeasures against partisans in Netherlands
You really often write good posts, but all this is pure hypocrisy from you...

The main difference is here that the Germans invaded a country whose neutrality they themselves respected and who they considered a " Germanic brother nation". We invaded the country of our contract partners after we were attacked by our contract partners.

[The Lawspeaker]

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Did you know that both Brits and the Dutch felt exactly the same way about Europe for most of their existence ? A hornets nest full of irrelevant, primitive peoples that couldn't stop killing each and plotting to kill each other for more than two seconds so they focussed on their overseas trade and empire. That's why they went overseas in the first place: they were tired of the rest of you and in the case of the Dutch it had to finance the war of independence as well.

Ever heard of the British idea of Splendid Isolation ? And the Dutch being neutral in Europe but very active overseas ? I want to return to that because it worked.

[Siegfried]

Did you know that both Brits and the Dutch felt exactly the same way about Europe for most of their existence ? A hornets nest full of irrelevant, primitive peoples that couldn't stop killing each and plotting to kill each other for more than two seconds so they focussed on their overseas trade and empire. That's why they went overseas in the first place: they were tired of the rest of you and in the case of the Dutch it had to finance the war of independence as well.

Ever heard of the British idea of Splendid Isolation ? And the Dutch being neutral in Europe but very active overseas ? I want to return to that because it worked.

The British who couldn't live a year without poking a stick at the French? You've got to be joking.

[The Lawspeaker]

The British who couldn't live a year without poking a stick at the French? You've got to be joking.

They had to keep them down a bit. They were too damn close but for the rest they just couldn't give a toss about Europe and I can't blame them: I feel exactly the same way. We should take back our lost lands and then flood the useless borderlands creating a defence line and then just keep a few bridges intact and build up defences and ignore the rest of you.