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 +[[Image:Nietzsche_in_Basel.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Friedrich Nietzsche]] (c. 1875)]]
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 +"What’s [[heaven]]? Heaven is where the [[police]] are [[Britishness|British]], the [[chef]]s are [[France|French]], the [[mechanics]] are [[Germany|German]], the [[lover]]s are [[Italy|Italian]] and the [[bank|banker]]s are [[Switzerland|Swiss]].
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 +So then, what’s [[hell]]? Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss and the bankers are Italian." [[Heaven is where the police are British|[...]]]
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 +[[Image:Wanderer.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Wanderer above the Sea of Fog]]'' ([[1818]]) by [[Caspar David Friedrich]]]]
 +[[Image:German Autobahn 1936 1939.jpg|thumb|200px|A [[German]] [[autobahn]] in the [[1930s]]]]
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-*[[German language]]+'''Germany''' is a [[country]] in [[Western Europe|West]]-[[central Europe]]. It is bordered on the north by the [[North Sea]], [[Denmark]], and the [[Baltic Sea]]; on the east by [[Poland]] and the [[Czech Republic]]; on the south by [[Austria]] and [[Switzerland]]; and on the west by [[France]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Belgium]], and the [[Netherlands]].
-*[[Rolf Dieter Brinkmann]]+== See also ==
-*[[German horror]]+*[[Anti-German sentiment]]
- +*[[Culture of Germany]]
-== German horror ==+*[[Deutschtum]]
-:"The weird pleasure the Germans take in evoking [[horror]] can perhaps be ascribed to the excessive and very Germanic desire to submit to discipline, together with a certain proneness to Sadism. In 'Dichtung und Wahrheit' Goethe deplores the 'unfortunate pedagogical principle which tends to free children early in life from their fear of mystery and the invisible by accustoming them to terrifying spectacles'." This insight into the 'sublimity' of the German soul is put forward by [[Lotte Eisner]], the famous film historian, in her epochal work on the German film of the 20’s, "The Haunted Screen". --Ingo Petzke 1992 via http://www.fh-wuerzburg.de/petzke/nosferatu.html [Oct 2005]+*[[German Modernism]]
- +*[[German Romanticism]]
-:All of this combined make the early German cinema the natural birthplace of the horror film. --Tohill, Tombs (1994)+*[[German art]]
 +*[[German literature]]
 +*[[Nazi Germany]]
 +*[[Stereotype of Germans]]
 +*[[Weimar Berlin]]
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Friedrich Nietzsche (c. 1875)

"What’s heaven? Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and the bankers are Swiss.

So then, what’s hell? Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss and the bankers are Italian." [...]

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Germany is a country in West-central Europe. It is bordered on the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; on the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; on the south by Austria and Switzerland; and on the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

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