Berliners Strangely Not Calling American Building Insensitive

Berliners not particularly upset by this symbol of foreign culture

As hundreds of angry Americans massed on the streets of New York to protest against the building of a mosque near the site of the World Trade Centre, no Germans were reported to be protesting about the presence of the US Embassy in Berlin, where over 20,000 civilians tragically lost their lives in three years of terror bombing.

“I’m really not that bothered, actually,” said passer-by Katrina Eberhart, 20. “I can appreciate that although a number of Americans planned to kill as many Germans as they could with large aircraft, such extreme acts of violence do not necessarily represent the hopes and aims of every single American on the planet.”

“Although, at the time, we Germans had a pretty high opinion of ourselves, I realise it was not necessarily a view endorsed by the rest of the world,” added her friend Romy Maurer. “In fact you could say that the way we treated other nations and races made Germans, to some degree, the engineers of our own misfortunes. Anyway, it’s in the past and the important thing is for people to understand and appreciate each other, isn’t it?”