German people/relatives etc. Would this have offended you?

[JessaJam]

Honestly would like to know.

Sitting in restaurant last night, swapping stories about old teachers we used to ahve with bunch of friends, including a friends girlfriend who is German.

DH pipes up "I had this one teacher, he was really evil, really nasty piece of work, no, really he was a nazi, he was..."
and a friend interupts and looks at the German gf and says " present company excluded obviously"
and sort of 'looks' at DH as if he has committed a social blooper....
The girlfriend smiles, tightly, and says " it ok, I've heard it all before anyway"

Now, I may have missed something...but at any point did DH say "All Germans are nazi" or " He was German so obviously he was a nazi" ...no...he was implying that this teacher was nazi-like in his nastiness (ok, probably an exaggeration, but...)

So, am I right and this is just over-senstive (maybe over compensating) from the friend? And I'm not sure what the gf meant by "heard it all before" cos DH has certainly never implied Nazi=German=Nazi.

Blimey - the "friend" didn't help much did he? In fact, it was the friend who was implying that German are Nazis, "present company excluded".

I think it is being rather over sensitive of your friends but then I am not known for my tact and diplomcy. I am trying to think of an equivalent 'insult' to the british for comparison purposes but nothing comes to mind.

See beckybrastraps that is what Ithought too....that the friends comment was the 'dodgy' one...

I agree: it's the friend's comment that referred it back to the German girl herself..

I have a german friend, she finds all/any references to Nazis deeply embarassing. So she wouldn't have been offended, but emabarassed.

and in fact yes, I agree with the other posters, it would've been much more helpful if the 'friend' had ignored it and not made such a deal out of it.

One of the consequences Germany suffers for their WW2 actions is this link between German and Nazi.

Not sure how it's ever going to disappear totally.

Not nice for people just trying to get on with their lives who had nothing to do with the war...

I think our friend is quite good at that freudian thing whereby you accuse others of things you feel yourself (like gay homophobes!)...