# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537 "2020-11-14T00:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1579
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1579 "2021-05-19T16:15:08Z")
Interesting bit of trivia: there was a question once asking if the early 20th century Nazis in Germany were also Grammar Nazis. (You know… well regimented, for sure also sticklers about grammar matters too.) Turns out that the Nazis liked to lessen the activities of the “Grammar Nazis” of those days. > [@Were Nazis Grammar Nazis?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-nazis-grammar-nazis/785540/11): > > This educational site quotes from A Social History of the Third Reich by Richard Grunberger, among others. Other cites in that page pointed to how Hitler actually inherited a very conservative educational system, meaning that what the Nazis did was to get rid of the grammar Nazis and concentrate more in physical activities (meaning more future soldiers) that were more important for the Reich. And even if the Germans noticed, they could not do much about the degradation of items like grammar… > Other cites in that page pointed to how Hitler actually inherited a very conservative educational system, meaning that _what the Nazis did was to get rid of the grammar Nazis_ and concentrate more in physical activities (meaning more future soldiers), those were more important for the Reich. > > And even if the Germans noticed, they could not do much about the degradation of items like grammar. > > > [@](#): > > > > Teachers encouraged members of the Hitler Youth to inform on their parents. For example, they set essays entitled “What does your family talk about at home?” According to one source: **“Parents… were alarmed by the gradual brutalization of manners, impoverishment of vocabulary and rejection of traditional values…** Their children became strangers, contemptuous of monarchy or religion, and perpetually barking and shouting like pint-sized Prussian sergeant-majors.” (31) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537)._