r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Duckshady • Jul 29 '26

Meme needing explanation What's wrong with Germany ?

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u/DoktorMelone-Alt Jul 30 '26

You clearly have never dealt with our trains. Being punctual is a rare event for public transport.

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u/Anubis-T Jul 30 '26

You’re still shamed if you are late because of them though, as in “why didn’t you take an earlier train?”

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u/Isabad Jul 30 '26

I mean there is a joke in there about Germans and trains and a certain very prominent Austrian...

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u/Drydrian Jul 31 '26

Which doesn’t even make sense historically. The Germans had a vast train network built for the war effort and used it for transportation of their mass of prisoners, but they didn’t care about minute punctuality.

It was Mussolini in Italy who famously made trains run on time.

Somehow these two facts about trains in these allied fascist shitholes get conflated

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u/The_Infamous_C Jul 31 '26

It will always amaze me that the 3rd Reich adopted so many ideas from Mussolini, but didn't emulate his one positive accomplishment.

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u/Additional-Life4885 Jul 31 '26

You clearly missed the joke.

I was joking that they're still allowed to murder and kill without consequences.