'Ich bin ein dummkopf'

So here I am sitting indoors, huddled round the gas fire whilst outside the sparrows are dropping off their twigs with the cold - or possibly because of the weight of birdseed they scoffed off my bird-table earlier - greedy buggers!   There's nothing on the 'telly' and the 'Memsahib' has retired upstairs for a nap, so, I decided to do something I haven't done for a while - I picked up a book!  For a man who, on average over the past 70 years, has usually read two books a week, my sudden decline in reading is a disgrace.  

Anyway, I determined that my low morale needed bucking up so I reached for my Kindle and got stuck into the first book I came across.  Within ten pages I was more depressed than when I started!  Why would I be surprised given that the book is: The Hitler Years by Frank McDonough!  No, not exactly a bundle of laughs but I am determined to persevere and if I am indeed a 'dummkopf', then just how 'dumm' were those millions of Germans 'back in der tag'?

 

 

 

Comments

[Bob]

Maybe you could follow that up with a cheery book about the Black Plague, David.

[missred]

I have struggled with the Germans and Hitler for as long as I can remember. I spent 6 years of my childhood in Germany, most of that not living on the American bases (my dad was military). The Germans I knew were a proud people who were ashamed of their WWII past. The population of the 1920s and 30s must have been demoralized beyond comprehension because of the Treaty of Versailles and the betrayal of their government. In 1919, they were still a young unified country. That is all I can come up with.

[Whyaxye]

Have you got to the bit where Adolf has to invade the rest of Europe to get his AstraZeneca vaccine?

[David Duff]

'W', you are a very naughty boy, I nearly fell off my chair chortling at that one!

[JK]

https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2021/01/saturday-snippet-lighter-side-of-secret.html

There's David, a book recommendation for you that'll maybe get you some bit away from the doldrums!