There has been heavy coverage in the blogosphere of Germany's
du Bist Deutschland, a
marketing campaign designed to make Germans feel better about themselves and their country. Blogger Mark Daniels explains why the campaign has caused such a stir in the blogosphere and in Europe.
Du Bist Deutschland is the tag line of an enormous PR-campaign designed
to help Germans feel good about being German. But a problem has developed.
A photograph has recently been discovered of a 1930s-era Nazi conclave in
which a banner emblazoned with the motto, "Denn Du bist Deutschland,"
meaning, "Cause Your Are Germany" is shown. This evidently has caused a
major controversy, calling the continuation of the entire campaign into
question.
More on the similar Nazi-era motto including a photograph can be found
here
in a Deutsche Welle article. Flickr has a collection of photos
from the PR campaign. Cooling Monkey's pulls up a related Stephen Colbert clip that discusses schadenfreude which means "pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others."
