>The Germani themselves, I am inclined to think, are natives of the land and very little affected by immigration or friendly interaction with other nations. For in ancient times those who wished to change their habitat travelled by sea and not by land, and the vast Ocean that lies beyond and, so to speak, defies intruders is seldom visited by ships from our world. Besides – to say nothing of the perils of a wild and unknown sea – who would leave Asia or Africa or Italy and seek out Germania, with its unlovely scenery and bitter climate, dreary to inhabit and even to behold, unless it were his home?
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SAMISTERIO on
So the Nazi is right? Tacitus praised their race in more than one occasion, both because of their habits and their features, and he only critiziced their land, which is fair, because it’s cold as fuck.
PhoenixKingMalekith on
As I always say, the thousand year german reich lasted shorter than the average jewish argument
Efficient-Orchid-594 on
Racism 😡
Racism but roman 😍
BasedAustralhungary on
I love all of that bullshit rethoric about the human pure race because It’s all the people trying to make up stuff to justify their supremacy while ignoring that if there is something like the “pure race” in the humankind (that there is not) it’d be a random community from the almost hundred ethnicities that exist in Ethiopia. If you add to the question the fact that almost all people have traces of Neanderthal DNA in our genome (2-7%) but in Africa then the answer is even more humilliating for them, if we follow their stupid racist logic.
DerDeutscheTyp on
He is not wrong. I also would prefer to live in Italy by the see or whatever but I got dealt the swamp land card.
Brabant-ball on
Pretty ironic that a lot of the Germanic tribes/groups/warbands that are glazed by Nazis only became famous by leaving Germania and therefore the 19th/20th century population of Germany couldn’t possibly be their descendants as those people had settled in Africa, Hispania or Italia
DueAd9005 on
Reminds me of Caesar’s quote about the Belgae being the bravest of them all
The full quote:
*“Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt Germanis, qui trans Rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt.”*
Translation:
Of all these, the bravest are the Belgae, **because they are the furthest removed from the civilization and refinement of the province, and merchants rarely visit them to bring in the things that tend to soften the spirit. They are also the closest to the Germans who live across the Rhine, with whom they are constantly at war.**
SamDemon8 on
The Nazi fascination with the Romans is beyond me considering the Romans wouldn’t consider Germanic peoples as civilized.
LeichenKaiser on
I wish Tacitus was right
JohnnyElRed on
The old noble thought that being an inbred make your blood purer.
de_G_van_Gelderland on
It’s also hilarious to use a quote about how Germanics are little affected by migration from a source that predates the freaking Germanic migration period and pretend that it still applies to the people who happen to live in the same general area almost 2 millennia later.
amievenrelevant on
The Nazis loved the romans yet though Mediterraneans were lower than Nordics like themselves, did they think the literal descendants of the Romans devolved or sum shit?
One-Earth9294 on
The Greeks were more interested in marching 1000 miles east than 50 miles northwest.
No-Effective388 on
To be honest, Germania back then wasn’t very hospitable.
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The full quote from Tacitus, Germania ch. 2
>The Germani themselves, I am inclined to think, are natives of the land and very little affected by immigration or friendly interaction with other nations. For in ancient times those who wished to change their habitat travelled by sea and not by land, and the vast Ocean that lies beyond and, so to speak, defies intruders is seldom visited by ships from our world. Besides – to say nothing of the perils of a wild and unknown sea – who would leave Asia or Africa or Italy and seek out Germania, with its unlovely scenery and bitter climate, dreary to inhabit and even to behold, unless it were his home?
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So the Nazi is right? Tacitus praised their race in more than one occasion, both because of their habits and their features, and he only critiziced their land, which is fair, because it’s cold as fuck.
As I always say, the thousand year german reich lasted shorter than the average jewish argument
Racism 😡
Racism but roman 😍
I love all of that bullshit rethoric about the human pure race because It’s all the people trying to make up stuff to justify their supremacy while ignoring that if there is something like the “pure race” in the humankind (that there is not) it’d be a random community from the almost hundred ethnicities that exist in Ethiopia. If you add to the question the fact that almost all people have traces of Neanderthal DNA in our genome (2-7%) but in Africa then the answer is even more humilliating for them, if we follow their stupid racist logic.
He is not wrong. I also would prefer to live in Italy by the see or whatever but I got dealt the swamp land card.
Pretty ironic that a lot of the Germanic tribes/groups/warbands that are glazed by Nazis only became famous by leaving Germania and therefore the 19th/20th century population of Germany couldn’t possibly be their descendants as those people had settled in Africa, Hispania or Italia
Reminds me of Caesar’s quote about the Belgae being the bravest of them all
The full quote:
*“Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt Germanis, qui trans Rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt.”*
Translation:
Of all these, the bravest are the Belgae, **because they are the furthest removed from the civilization and refinement of the province, and merchants rarely visit them to bring in the things that tend to soften the spirit. They are also the closest to the Germans who live across the Rhine, with whom they are constantly at war.**
The Nazi fascination with the Romans is beyond me considering the Romans wouldn’t consider Germanic peoples as civilized.
I wish Tacitus was right
The old noble thought that being an inbred make your blood purer.
It’s also hilarious to use a quote about how Germanics are little affected by migration from a source that predates the freaking Germanic migration period and pretend that it still applies to the people who happen to live in the same general area almost 2 millennia later.
The Nazis loved the romans yet though Mediterraneans were lower than Nordics like themselves, did they think the literal descendants of the Romans devolved or sum shit?
The Greeks were more interested in marching 1000 miles east than 50 miles northwest.
To be honest, Germania back then wasn’t very hospitable.