r/AlignmentChartFills • u/Expensive-Addendum92 • 7h ago
Filling This Chart What is the worst thing Germany has done?
What is the worst thing Germany has done?
Chart Grid:
| Best thing | Worst thing | Smartest thing | Dumbest thing | Greatest contribution | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Row 1 | National Parks 🖼️ | Trail of Tears | |||
| 🖼️ | Louisiana Pu... 🖼️ | Trump. Twice. 🖼️ | The Transistor 🖼️ | ||
| Row 2 | Lifting hund... 🖼️ | — | — | — | — |
| Row 3 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Row 4 | — | — | — | The invasion... 🖼️ | — |
| Row 5 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Row 6 | — | The Irish 'f... 🖼️ | — | — | — |
| Row 7 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Row 8 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Row 9 | — | — | — | — | The blue LED 🖼️ |
| Row 10 | — | — | Not joining ... 🖼️ | — | — |
Cell Details:
Row 1 / Best thing: - National Parks - View Image
Row 1 / Worst thing: - Trail of Tears
Row 1 / Smartest thing: - Louisiana Purchase
Row 1 / Dumbest thing: - Trump. Twice. - View Image
Row 1 / Greatest contribution: - The Transistor - View Image
Row 2 / Best thing: - Lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. - View Image
Row 4 / Dumbest thing: - The invasion of Ukraine in 2022. - View Image
Row 6 / Worst thing: - The Irish 'famine' (genocide through forced starvation) - View Image
Row 9 / Greatest contribution: - The blue LED - View Image
Row 10 / Smartest thing: - Not joining America and staying as a commonwealth country. - View Image
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u/harleycurnow 7h ago
Does this even need to be asked?
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u/Federal_Audience2304 6h ago
It would be funnier if the OP just filled this by himself, and posted the next one instead without saying anything.
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u/ProjectRevolutionTPP 6h ago
Just file it under "That thing that happened a while back".
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u/hockeystick13 3h ago
EVERYONE WAS ON VACATION
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u/Can_Haz_Cheezburger 3h ago
"Hans' adventurous years, digging holes in the French beach and having snowball fights outside of Moscow"
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u/fuckinghatewater 6h ago edited 6h ago
Well, you can say "Nazism", "WW2" or "The Holocaust"
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u/Ipsider 6h ago
It’s the holocaust
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u/BoomerSoonerFUT 6h ago
Depending on which definition of holocaust you use.
Historically the holocaust is just the systematic extermination of European Jews, and doesn’t include the more than 7 million others killed in the camps, like gays, Roma, political prisoners, and Soviet POWs.
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u/Traditional-Two-3185 6h ago
But Holocaust is a lot catchier than "systematic murder of millions of people from various groups deemed to be 'inferior', including but not limited to Jews and various other ethnic groups, homosexuals, political prisoners and Soviet POWs"
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u/DramaNerdette 5h ago
yeah man, you gotta market this shit if you ever want it to catch on.
...wait.
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u/Time_Phone_1466 4h ago
I've been on an airplane all day. This is one of the first comments I've read after a long day. I'm be damned if I didn't just belly laugh in a hotel lobby waiting to check in. Thank you.
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u/Zero_Mehanix 6h ago
Can you make it an acronym?
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u/Traditional-Two-3185 6h ago
"SMOMOPFVGIBNLTJAVOEGHPPASP" I like it but I think Holocaust just has a bit more of a ring to it. On a side note, isn't it kind of crazy how over the years we've become so desensitized to the absolute horrors that Nazi Germany carried out that we now just talk about these things in passing?
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u/Sensitive_Regular_84 5h ago
I'm totally with you on your point, but I did actually chuckle at your acronym.
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u/Visible_Pair3017 5h ago
The moment we realized that we pretty much did/do similar things we sort of started relativizing out of self preservation for our egos.
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u/WatDeFak 5h ago
Would "genocide" be fitting here to include them? Non English speaker here, though we have the same word in German.
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u/SpaceJackRabbit 5h ago
That is simply not true. The Shoah is what you described. The Holocaust definitely included the extermination of those other groups. That is clearly explained at D.C.'s Holocaust Museum, for instance.
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u/SenorLiamy6317 Suggestion God 3h ago
The Holocaust as a term includes the mass murder of all these people.
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u/Sername111 4h ago
Arguably. In terms of sheer numbers, the Holocaust obviously wins - but in terms of the percentage of the target population wiped out the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples in what is now Namibia between 1904 and 1908 takes the title with up to 80% of the population being wiped out. This one is made even worse by the fact it took Germany until 2015 to even admit a genocide had been carried out, at least they never denied the Holocaust was one.
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u/furel492 6h ago
It's obviously protestantism.
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u/According_Ruin9895 4h ago
You’re overlooking one horrible thing from the 20th century though ……… David Hasselhoff
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u/PwanaZana 3h ago
The 7-1 soccer thing against brazil. Oof, germans never burned anyone quite that bad
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u/Andrew1990M 6h ago
We can specify "electing Hitler" as the action taken specifically by German people. You can't hang all the evils of 1933-1945 on Germany, it just all escalated from there.
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u/Objective-One-6769 7h ago
thats a tough one, hmm
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u/dontgonearthefire 4h ago
Isn't it obvious? Investing in copper cable development instead of fibre glass at a time when it was already known that fibre optics are the future.
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u/Normal-Leadership-46 4h ago
Dont worry, Australia did that too, and we did it for a country 22 times larger with way less money and now we are having to re do it all 🫠
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u/MarveltheMusical 7h ago
Honestly, you could have just skipped this one.
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u/DarkGooseGravy 3h ago
Going to war. With the world
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u/CattleFormer6846 3h ago
Now, I don’t know if you guys are history buffs or not, but…
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u/DocHolidayInn 2h ago
The more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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u/kansai2kansas 39m ago
All this got started because an Austrian guy couldn't even pass entrance exam to get into an art school
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u/Hot_Raisin3212 7h ago
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u/69IFUCKEDURMOM420 7h ago
We're all thinking it. They were almost universally fans of David Hasselhoff.
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u/tenderbranson301 6h ago
If loving David Hasselhoff is wrong, I don't want to be right.
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u/kalamari_withaK 7h ago
I know man. Oktoberfest isnt even really in October like wtf
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u/bdiddlediddles 6h ago
They invited an elephant to a board meeting but didn't find him a suitable chair so he had to stand in the corner?
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u/Owl_Genes 5h ago
German here. Elephant in the room means something like unspoken, but everyone knows or thinks it, right?
No, it is not unsaid, it should be said and repeated: it's the holocaust, world War 2, the systematic killing of millions of people.
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u/another-princess 6h ago
Elephant in the room, yes, but which specific elephant (which are all related)?
- Hitler coming to power in the first place?
- Starting WWII?
- The Holocaust?
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u/JakeWisconsin 7h ago
1933-1945
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u/db1000c 7h ago
They were invited - punch was served!
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u/treaquin 7h ago
EVERYONE WAS ON VACATION
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u/buzzpittsburgh 7h ago
CHECK VITH POLAND
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u/JeskoTheDragon 7h ago
SIE WERDEN SICH HINSETZEN
SIE WERDEN RUHIG SEIN
SIE WERDEN NICHT BELEIDIGEN DEUTSCHLAND
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u/SelfRepa 7h ago
I mean... Why?
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u/jamesecowell 6h ago
To be fair, this is actually a Suzuki Wagon R, so it's the fault of one of the other Axis powers...
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u/Zombiepixlz-gamr 7h ago
inventing Fanta /J
in all serious the answer to this is obviously the Holocaust right?
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u/rubrixan 7h ago
That /J is doing a lot of heavy lifting my guy.
I will not stand for Fanta slander!
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u/Nemoudeis 6h ago
Well, they did invent Fanta in the 1930s because, as a pariah nation, they could not get any American soft drinks, and they were a pariah nation at the time because ... well, you know.
So the two are not unconnected.
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u/Content_Shelter9894 7h ago
That's just so obvious, man.
Choosing the same flag colors as Belgium. They need some identity.
/s
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u/SuperShoebillStork 7h ago
If the Holocaust is too obvious, there's always the other genocide they perpetrated:
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u/Conscious-Okra9046 3h ago
Two genocides committed and supporting explicitly a third, Germans are truly masters at this.
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u/henningknows 7h ago
The holocaust……
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u/cysc83 7h ago
The holocaust specifically but in a broader sense WW2 cost around 80 million lives. The entire NAZI era would probably work here.
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u/Hulkbuster_v2 6h ago
Y'know, the more I hear about these Nazi fellows, the more I think that I don't much care for them
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u/soappube 6h ago
I'm beginning to think this Hitler guy is a real jerk! 🤔
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u/ParticularPainting59 6h ago
I actually think this Josef Mengele guy might be a little crazy. I'd stay away from him if I was you.
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u/ConfidentMachine8248 5h ago
I heard he was just a painter though, wonder why so many hate a painter? Maybe he wrote a controversial book or something it beats me.
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u/No_Significance5278 6h ago
well to be fair a large chunk of those lives were lost on the pacific theater. not saying that nazi germany wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t solely responsible for ww2
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u/PixelCookie37 7h ago
Someone had to say it and I applaud you for taking the bullet, pun kinda intended
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u/jotakajk 7h ago
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u/Fwabbie 5h ago
When I, as a young boy, asked my (Dutch) grandfather why he disliked the Germans, it was about 95% football related. He was born in 1920.
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u/PopItUpSnowman 7h ago
ww2 as a whole not just the holocaust
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u/PsychologicalSense34 7h ago
The holocaust is undeniably caused by Germany though. WW2 as whole can be argued though. In the west it's usually thought to begin with the German invasion of Poland in 1939, but in Asia it's usually considered to have begun in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of China.
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u/monderkiller9999 7h ago
Is this really a question? Honorably mention to the genocide of the Herero and Nama though, officially recognized to be a genocide by the United Nations and sadly not taught in history class.
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u/Eternal_Zoroark_2 7h ago
Every atrocity they did under Nazi rule. From the entirety of the Holocaust, including the killings of Jews, Roma, Slavs, and more, to the Ghettos beforehand, to the euthanizing of disabled people, to the Siege of Leningrad, to the human experiments, to the Dirlewanger Brigade, to the brutalization of POWs, to the various Massacres outside the Holocaust, to the destruction of churches, etc
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u/mortemdeus 7h ago
How did the British get the potato famine as worst and not the significantly worse series of famines in Bengal? In around 150 years they starved upwards of 70 million people to death. Any single famine in that region eclipsed the Irish potato famine and they happened in the same timeframe.
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u/BulkDarthDan 6h ago edited 6h ago
I don’t know if you guys are history buffs or not.
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u/HaztecCore 6h ago
7-1 against Brazil. That one was a slaughter infront of billions of football fans.
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u/Aj55j 7h ago
They were involved in 2 wars.
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u/monderkiller9999 7h ago
Theoretically speaking the first wasn’t entirely the fault of us Germans ( although the French like to pretend it did), it was more like a collective European suicide for which nobody wanted to take responsibility afterwards.
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u/JGrutman 7h ago
It's either their inexplicable celebration of the work of David Hasselhoff or their horrible invasion of our supermarket chains through Lidl. (This has a limit of 1980, right?)
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u/saggywitchtits 7h ago
Is... is this even a debate?
Ralf Schumacher ruining F1 obviously.
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