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I was reading this BBC article on Germans being orderly, What makes Germans so orderly?, good article, that mentioned a NYTimes article from 1930 with a link you can click. So I did.

That brought you to this page: GERMAN PILOTS COURSE IS A LONG, HARD GRIND; Work at Transport School From Which von Gronan Flew Is Arduous--25 in 1,000 Applicants Get In with a picture and link to an image of the November 9, 1930 New Times article.

Clicking on that gets you to the actual page. GERMAN PILOTS COURSE IS A LONG, HARD GRIND

As a huge history buff, this is incredible and seriously cool to be able to see and read news from 100 years ago. 30 years ago I went to one of Toronto's art museums, I don't recall which one. The feature exhibit was post-WWII art from the perspectives of New York, Paris and Berlin. It also had a little of Moscow. It was a phenomenal exhibit that was brilliantly curated, I can still remember most of the paintings and their focus. Anyway they had a room with newspapers from around the world and it was so cool to read what was happening in different cities after WWII.

If you love history, timesmachine.com is worth checking out.

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They can be perfectionist.

I was in Tyler as a new tire plant was being built. We had bought a bunch of state of the art equipment from a German company, Berstorf.

They sent one of their engineers, Helmut, over to oversee installation of the various pieces of equipment

On the day of the final install of the fabric wire calendar (produces sheets to later be cut into ply and steel belts) he was all over it. The base for this beast had already been set and laser aligned. The upper part of steel frame including the four 84" wide steel rolls was being lowered into place by a huge crane. The piece being lowered down probably weighed at least 10 tons. Probably more.

When the frame was about 4" above the base Helmut yelled STOP! He went to each base pad, took out a cloth, and wiped away any dust that had accumulated.

I thought to myself that any dust was going to be smashed to nothingness after the frame was completely lowered. He was just as picky during the other installs.

Oh, and thanks for the link.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/11/09/92115222.html?pageNumber=175
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/11/09/92115222.html?pageNumber=175
I'll have to take your word for it.

I'm glad then that I have a Times subscription and stumbled upon this from the BBC.

If you like history, it would be worth the Times subscription alone I think. I think the NYTimes had auto classifieds in the 70s but that is one section I will not be reading.

Section 5 in the Sunday NYT was the best marketplace in the 70's for sports and collector cars in the NY, NJ, CT areas. Bought a few, sold a few, and was swindled out of a 65 911 (forged certified check) through there.

Germans, Ancestry. com says im 15%, its a little bit but enough to be in the club. I lived in Germany while pops was doing Helicoptor ops in the Army over there. The schools are amazing! Lived there a good 6 years, and when I returned, I absolutely hated Merican public schools. It was pretty awsome over there. I have some Kinfolke there also, so who knows what they are up to now. They are sticklers for accuracy, and even after failure, they keep plowing away and never throw in the towel. Heck a German got us to the moon, gave us a shuttle and space station, and before he passed he even talked about landing on marz. Cool old Newspaper clipping, I digs the vintage stuff.https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...0bfc5f12b5.jpg https://neverwasmag.com/wp-content/u...-artwork-1.jpg

And those Germans of the 1930s priced to be rather too good at killing people

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Putting aside the horrors of the Nazis, the engineering prowess and weapons superiority of the Germans in WW2 is incredible. I’ll never forget talking with a former neighbor and WW2 vet who had been hospitalized with a German POW in WW2. The German told him that “everything we have is better, but you Americans just have more of it”. The list of firsts from that timeframe originating from Germans is incredible.