He is fascinated by the late 19th century, when Germans were scattered across central Europe, and Jews enriched life all over the continent.

他沉醉于19世纪的欧洲，那时德国人分散在整个中欧地区，犹太人遍布这个大陆。

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Do you think Germans have better education about personal responsibility when driving?

你认为在对驾车责任感的教育方面，德国人做得更好吗？

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Many wondered what the Germans would think when they caught sight of the allied Armada, the largest fleet that had ever put to sea.

许多人都想得知，德国人看到同盟军舰队——有史以来投入海战的最大舰队——的时候会作何感想。

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I'll tell you, in the south of France near where we live, when there was a lot of resistance in World War II against the Germans, there were some Protestant villages there that were noteworthy for their resistance.

例如在法国南部,当时我们住所的附近,有一些新教徒的村子,这些村民们在二战中奋力抗击德国的入侵,并因为他们的不屈抗争而闻名

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And I have a friend who's a Parisian lawyer who works in Africa a lot, and when he was a little boy the Germans came to get his father who was a Greek Jew, and he was taken away and killed, of course.

我有个朋友,是在巴黎的律师总去非洲工作,他小的时候,德国人来抓他父亲因为他是希腊犹太人,他被抓走后遇害

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And one day so I was eating my ice-cream because the archives were closed, and this woman came up, and she was probably about fity, or something like that, and she ordered ice-cream, and so this guy says, "Well, Madame whatever, Madame Dupuis, you remember that day don't you, when the Germans came back?" And she said, "Oh I sure do, they hung my husband from that pole."

有一天我正吃冰激凌呢,因为档案馆关了,有个女人过来,她大概有五十岁,她要了个冰激凌,然后这哥们说,"我也忘了什么夫人了,杜普斯夫人,你还记得那天吧,德国人来的那天",然后她说,"我当然记得,他们把我丈夫吊在那根柱子上"

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