The Nazi Stamp

A while back I encountered one of these incidents that I am about to describe here.

 Let me start off with my first encounter when I was on a family trip on an island of Portugal. My mother, being blonde with green eyes, sometimes gets mistaken for being Swedish but the moment she said she was German, a blunt "Nazi" was said by the curious bus guest. My mouth just dropped.

Fast forward few years later and nothing has changed actually. Still Germans are being seen as Nazis, no matter what. Proud of your country...not patriotic...Nazi. Being grammatically correct...Grammer Nazi. You didn't have anything to do with World War II, still a Nazi. There is no stopping to this craziness. But let's be real, Germany wasn't the only country who effed up, ok! Am I right or right?

The story starts off that I am biracial, binational or however you want to call it. My father being American and my mother being German. Best of both worlds as everyone says but also the burden of both. I love both of my nationalities and am proud of what both countries have achieved.

Anyways one day I was working at the register of an US Army supplier on an installation in Germany (so yes there are many binational marriages, German workers etc.). This one particular customer came in. A MP officer. Not only that, she was of African American decent. She was fussing about how the phone company supposedly screwed her over with the telephone bill. Not too much longer, the N-Bomb fell. I was taken back to the incident many years before on the bus. My jaw dropped once again but this time my body filled with rage and anger. One of my coworkers noticed and moved the lady aside before I was able to blurt something out.

It hurt me deeply because I realized nothing had changed of the perception of a German. I was also mad that she had used the word so loosely because she probably wouldn't have been fond of someone yelling out N****.

Shortly after, she came to my register and apologized for her behavior, which I appreciated. I did make it clear to her, that actions like hers led to how Germans were seen by so many, I told her about my situation and the many Germans who worked there or were married to Germans. 

Please think before you speak, no matter how mad you are, because one day it might cause some serious trouble.