# The Nazi on Maytide Street **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 11, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630 "2004-03-11T04:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/21 "2004-03-11T16:48:01Z")
> [@Hentor the Barbarian](#): > > Hmm. And what do you make of the “White Power” banner that I mentioned. Maybe he is into solar energy? Or maybe he is a sad little man? I don’t get this siding with the losers. “Hey! Remember those guys who got their ass kicked 60 years (or 140) ago? I want to be one of them!” ---
**Author:** ![Toddly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@Toddly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toddly)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/22 "2004-03-11T17:15:29Z")
Everytime I see this shit and the people that support this way of thinking I get a sickening feeling.I really feel for the folks that have to live next to these scumbags. They have to live with this crap everyday. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/23 "2004-03-11T17:32:18Z")
Y’know, the thread title made me think of the old short story, and subsequent _Twilight Zone_ episode, The Monsters Have Come To Maple Street. Then I read the OP, and, well… It still makes me think of that. Except I kinda liked the actual bad guys in the story. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/24 "2004-03-11T17:43:08Z")
Do these people just not realize that the Nazis lost? And that it wasn’t even remotely close? I mean if you had to choose just one example for a presentation on “Modern Industrialized Nations of the Twentieth Century that Got Their Asses Kicked Really Really Really Really Bad” for your Political Science class, it would definitely be on your short list. And why are white supremacists invariably white people who have never accomplished a goddamned thing? You never see Stephen Hawking, Paul McCartney, Bill Gates, Norman Schwarzkopf, Stephen King, Ted Turner, etc., all of them white guys who’ve done huge and enormous things to be proud of, saying “this is because I’m white… no darky could do what I’ve done”. Instead it’s almost invariably\* some loser who worships bigger losers who listens to 8 tracks on the inferiority of blacks while driving to his night security guard job at the rug factory, or some imbecile who flunked out of 11th grade and can’t get a job at the Waffle House because of his swastika tattoos but sees no irony when he calls the black surgeon who saved his life the time he mixed Sterno and Yoo-hoo a “nigger”. I’m not Jewish, but just once I’d love to see a street gang attack a neo-Nazi home and spray paint Stars of David over everything. \*The only variation I can think of is William Shockley, and even he wasn’t that vitriolic. ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/25 "2004-03-11T18:04:31Z")
> [@CheekyMonkey613](#): > > OMG !!! If I hear this excuse one more time… > > Un-fucking-believable. Um… whoosh? ---
**Author:** ![pushpitskin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@pushpitskin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pushpitskin)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/26 "2004-03-11T18:25:23Z")
See, what you need there is a good sized pack of SHARPs to do a little aggressive educating. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/27 "2004-03-11T18:43:05Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Do these people just not realize that the Nazis lost? And that it wasn’t even remotely close? I mean if you had to choose just one example for a presentation on “Modern Industrialized Nations of the Twentieth Century that Got Their Asses Kicked Really Really Really Really Bad” for your Political Science class, it would definitely be on your short list. > or some imbecile who flunked out of 11th grade and can’t get a job at the Waffle House because of his swastika tattoos but sees no irony when he calls the black surgeon who saved his life the time he mixed Sterno and Yoo-hoo a “nigger”. Thing is, it _was_ pretty close. Hitler could have built an A-bomb by 1939 if he hadn’t scared most of the best (Jewish) minds at the Gottingen away; if the Battle of Britain had been lost, and the Luftwaffe’s _massive_ (9:1) numerical superiority had won out, and the invasion of Britain completed, the war in Europe would have been effectively over. Tricky as D-Day was, it would have been literally impossible with British troops and without Britain as a staging point. Besides, neo-Nazis aren’t really Nazis at all. They’re still bigots, fascists, evil and incredibly misguided, but they have different priorities. To the Nazis, P.E. #1 was the Jews; to Neonazi movements, it’s whichever immigrant group happens to be largest in their area. In the US, it’s blacks, of course. The Nazis, for all their failings, had a _plan_; have you ever heard anyone from the Aryan Nations outline what America is going to be like after they kick the darkies (including me, presumably) out? No, they haven’t got a fucking clue. They’re just going to live in God’s America where apparently they won’t need laws or rules or a system of government. That second part I quoted is possibly the funniest line ever, though. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/28 "2004-03-11T19:45:11Z")
> [@Skeezix](#): > > Y’know, the thread title made me think of the old short story, and subsequent _Twilight Zone_ episode, The Monsters Have Come To Maple Street. And I thought the thread title was referring to the latest BBC sitcom. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/29 "2004-03-11T20:16:37Z")
> [@Mycroft Holmes](#): > > P.S.: in Germany you can also be arrested for doing a nazi salute on the street . . . How do they hail cabs?! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/30 "2004-03-11T20:45:17Z")
They concentrate? \*\* D & R \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/31 "2004-03-11T21:13:10Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > They concentrate?\* **Lieu** , you can be _so_ camp sometimes . . . ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/32 "2004-03-11T21:18:17Z")
Hey, _hey_, HEY, now, there’s no call for the use of the N word! He might just be a Republican, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/33 "2004-03-11T21:27:14Z")
[Gilbert Gottfried] So I was hanging out with Kurt Waldheim… [/Gilbert Gottfried] ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/34 "2004-03-11T22:38:15Z")
> [@CheekyMonkey613](#): > > Un-fucking-believable. People, people, people! When will guys learn!? It’s un-be-fucking-lievable. go NAZI on all your asses, I’ll tell you whut :mad: ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/35 "2004-03-12T06:09:54Z")
… and I should know, being one and all. If I display a fylflot in public it’s one designed to look as different from the nazi flag as possible. It may have curvy arms in a sort of spiral instead of sharp angles or is enclosed all together as in a sun wheel… or with 3 arms instead of four… whatever will not make you think ‘Racist!’ immediately. It is a holy symbol done great damage and must be treated with reverence and due care. ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/36 "2004-03-12T08:41:53Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > How do they hail cabs?! Well, to be honest, we don’t. There are always special areas where cabs stop, usually at train stations, near specific night spots, etc. If we are in a restaurant or a hotel and need a cab, a phone call is made and the cab picks you up. Basically no one ever hails a cab in the middle of the block. All the cabs going by are usually occupied or not in service (because they’re on the way to the cab stops). Also, it would be much to dangerous for a cab to stop in the middle of traffic. In Germany cabs are mostly used to transport people between their homes and the hospital or doctor (a phone call is then made to order a cab), or after a really late night out, when public transportation isn’t running anymore (again a phone call is made). For all other travel people take the bus, tram, train or other form of public transportation. This is because cabs are prohibitively expensive in Germany also. For a ten mile trip (one way) I could expect to pay somewhere between twenty and thirty euros. That can work out to almost fourty dollars!!! This means that almost all cab trips are either transporting the old or infirm to and from the doctor or hospital, or transporting business people between the airport/train station and their hotels. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/37 "2004-03-13T01:05:27Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#): > > Thing is, it _was_ pretty close. Hitler could have built an A-bomb by 1939 if he hadn’t scared most of the best (Jewish) minds at the Gottingen away; if the Battle of Britain had been lost, and the Luftwaffe’s _massive_ (9:1) numerical superiority had won out, and the invasion of Britain completed, the war in Europe would have been effectively over. Tricky as D-Day was, it would have been literally impossible with British troops and without Britain as a staging point. It was close if you say everything up to point X stayed the same but then everything after happens differently. While people love to bash ol’ Adolf for his mistakes which brought defeat, it’s also a fact that without him forcing the generals to take action, most of the early victories would not have happened. Poland, Checkoslovakia and France were all opposed by his generals. Some of his generals were conspiring against him up until his victory over France which made him untouchable by anyone opposed to him. His policies which drove those minds out of Germany also brought him to power. So when you step back and think about it, it was never close at all. If you make the changes necessary for Germany to have won the war, you remove the possibility of the Nazi’s having come to power in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/38 "2004-03-13T01:47:29Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > My sympathies for the poor guy trying to sell the other half of the duplex… Maybe nazi man wants to drive out his neighbor so that he can own the whole shmear. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/39 "2004-03-13T02:13:25Z")
> [@The Long Road](#): > > It was close if you say everything up to point X stayed the same but then everything after happens differently. While people love to bash ol’ Adolf for his mistakes which brought defeat, it’s also a fact that without him forcing the generals to take action, most of the early victories would not have happened. Poland, Checkoslovakia and France were all opposed by his generals. Some of his generals were conspiring against him up until his victory over France which made him untouchable by anyone opposed to him. His policies which drove those minds out of Germany also brought him to power. So when you step back and think about it, it was never close at all. If you make the changes necessary for Germany to have won the war, you remove the possibility of the Nazi’s having come to power in the first place. “Horseshoes and hand grenades, man” would have been an equally effective rebuttal, you know 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nazi-on-maytide-street/233630/40 "2004-03-13T02:23:57Z")
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