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Old 03-30-10, 02:07 PM   #15
janh
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Originally Posted by Magnum View Post
Ow what a mega fail movie was that. Germans are already used to be threated as retards in every Hollywood movies, but to drag the Enigma success on the american boat even if is a fiction movie, epic fail. Sadly, many americans are very convinced that they were the first to get their hands on the enigma code and when you ask them to prove it, they point out U-571. It's a shame.
But you can't ask an average American about (European) history, especially about a very particular event therein that basically only and expert on this era would know... I have had hilarious experiences with that even at Harvard, and I would have expected my students to be a bit smarter than the average... But on the contrary you can't ask a European about the American Civil War either (though even that seemed to be quite an unkown variable here...).
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