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We Asked 12 People at Fremont Oktoberfest: Who's Your Favorite German?

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Wernher von Braun? Really?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq…
Dan Savage on September 23, 2014 at 2:35 PM Stranger Staff
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I was RILLY RILLY RILLY hoping someone would say Dr. Ruth, that little cutie
http://www.biography.com/people/dr-ruth-…
Kelly O on September 23, 2014 at 2:42 PM Report this
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WERNER HERTZOG! DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH.
Callie on September 23, 2014 at 2:48 PM Report this
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for me.
johnny_blvd on September 23, 2014 at 3:00 PM Report this
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Peter Schilling.
remarkablyadept on September 23, 2014 at 3:05 PM Report this
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Potato salad?

I think Erwin Rommel a pretty good German. He was Field Marshall in North Africa during WWII and widely feared/respected by his American and British adversaries largely because of his extraordinary tactical skills. He was also implicated in a plot to kill Hitler. I believe the fellow was forced to take a cyanide pill. Churchill acknowledged him in a speech to Parliament.

So, yeah I'd call the "Desert Fox" a favorite German
lark on September 23, 2014 at 3:13 PM Report this
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Marie Curie was Polish, actually -- it was her husband who was French.
Alicia on September 23, 2014 at 3:22 PM Report this
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Wim Wenders, and if Michael Haneke is Austrian (I think he is?), then second place to what @4 said, and 10,000 points awarded to what @6 said.
Dougsf on September 23, 2014 at 3:30 PM Report this
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@7 Rommel was in the plot to kill Hitler, but he was still a believing Nazi.

No love for Nietzsche?

Thankful nobody said Rosa Luxembourg.
sirkowski on September 23, 2014 at 3:48 PM Report this
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Wernher von Braun? Really? Did they name him because Hitler was Austrian and so ineligible? They could have gone for Goering, or for Eichmann, I guess. Fncking idiots - and that's the generous interpretation. If they wanted some ambiguity, they could have gone for Wagner, but von Braun was a genuine monster. I've heard firsthand stories of how his rockets got built, and firsthand stories of what his rockets did when they were used. About the nicest thing you can say about him is that he accelerated the shift from nuclear bombers to ICBMs, which at least in theory reduced the risk of accidentally blowing up the world.

Also: Anne Frank: inspirational figure, totally worthy, but extremely Not German.
Warren Terra on September 23, 2014 at 3:54 PM Report this
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Hello? Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, etc. etc. etc.?
Betsy Ross on September 23, 2014 at 4:05 PM Report this
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Klaus Nomi.
Soupytwist on September 23, 2014 at 4:17 PM Report this
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Everyone in Kraftwerk.
Big Matt G on September 23, 2014 at 4:23 PM Report this
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There are no good or bad Germans. They were just following orders.
Gurldoggie on September 23, 2014 at 4:25 PM Report this
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Werner Herzog, Dirk Nowitzki, Claus Von Stauffenberg and any member of Rammstein.
Gern Blanston on September 23, 2014 at 4:33 PM Report this
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Marlene Dietrich
You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me on September 23, 2014 at 4:38 PM Report this
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What the fuck is this shit with the teeney-tiny beer glasses??? How the fuck do they have the gall to call that event Octoberfest? I bet all those people are drinking IPA's or some shit. Gahhhh......

(storms off into the distance, yelling to himself...)
Super Jesse on September 23, 2014 at 4:41 PM Report this
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Oh, Detlef Schrempf and Chris Welp too!
Gern Blanston on September 23, 2014 at 4:51 PM Report this
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Sabine Schmitz
lone locust on September 23, 2014 at 4:54 PM Report this
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Lili Von Shtupp?
Action Slacks on September 23, 2014 at 5:04 PM Report this
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Can I pick two? I don't know which Grimm brother was a bigger deal.
MacCrocodile on September 23, 2014 at 5:20 PM Report this
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Nena.
DOUG. on September 23, 2014 at 5:56 PM Report this
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Robert Koch was pretty bad-ass. Also those unnamed monks brewing delicious beer for 1,000+ years at Andechs.
McBomber on September 23, 2014 at 6:27 PM Report this
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder & Ernst Lubitsch.

In terms of the living ones, Herzog. The man, the myth the legend.
Steve French on September 23, 2014 at 6:47 PM Report this
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<3
[Her] "I der know. I don't know. I don't
ChefJoe on September 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM Report this
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The Germans named by @12 certainly have given more to my life, if you exclude the ones I'm descended from.
Matt from Denver on September 23, 2014 at 7:14 PM Report this
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Anne Frank was DUTCH. sheesh! my favorite Deutschlander is Beethoven.
scary tyler moore on September 23, 2014 at 9:20 PM Report this
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Fffffffff I would happily, eagerly, ebulliently provide whatever amount of unreciprocated oral sex that aerospace engineer fancied in exchange for being lectured to about orbital mechanics or whatever. Jesus of fucking Christtown that is probably the sexiest thing I have ever seen/heard of in my life.
Ben on September 23, 2014 at 9:23 PM Report this
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The person in the pic on Favorite German has one of the stupidest hats I have ever seen. The beard is a giveaway to a moron as his left thumbnail. The guy ain't right.
longwayhome on September 23, 2014 at 9:33 PM Report this
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Robert Koch WAS bad-ass. So was his student, Julius Petri. And Ernst Haeckel was no slouch either.
And yeah, @12 is right: Buxtehude, Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, basically most of the great music of the west. We have to pick a favorite?
Alive today? Julius Adler and Christiane Nusslein-Volhard.
Biologist in the stix on September 23, 2014 at 11:31 PM Report this
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Oh where to start...

Fritz Lang
Albrecht Druerer
von Manstein
Billy Wilder
AgentofChaos on September 23, 2014 at 11:35 PM Report this
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My grandmother. Bless her gentle Lutheran soul.
Sandiai on September 23, 2014 at 11:45 PM Report this
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I mean, Anne Frank was born in Germany. And was, um, "repatriated" back to Germany (and died there, obv).

Not that being born Dutch would have helped much; the Dutch were piss-poor at protecting even their native Jews.
Sandiai on September 24, 2014 at 12:30 AM Report this
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More to choose from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slcYzUIPS…
on September 24, 2014 at 7:45 AM Report this
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@33 Billy Wilder was born in Austria, and I'd argue probably more American than German (if that makes sense), but I'm glad you made me look it up since I didn't know much about his life writing in Berlin.
Dougsf on September 24, 2014 at 1:56 PM Report this
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hitler was austrian, so even if you're a nazi, he couldn't be your favorite german. he would be my least favorite austro-german...
detsea on September 24, 2014 at 9:30 PM Report this
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hildegard von bingen
reverend dr dj riz on September 26, 2014 at 10:41 AM Report this
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@16: I like your picks, but may I add the people in Eisbrecher?
Hanoumatoi on September 28, 2014 at 1:44 PM Report this

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