Right out of a children's storybook

[anubis119@lemmy.world]

Learn your rules. You'd better learn your rules.

[illi@lemm.ee]

Not sure if trolling or serious tbh

[treczoks@lemmy.world]

There were times when kids were no snowflakes.

[hakunawazo@lemmy.world]

Yes, but now you aren't a thumb sucker anymore, right? By the help of that skillful guy.

[sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Soft shits create hard times and hard times create hard shits.

If you have too hard shits tho you should look into your diet

[aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The twist is that it's a German Humoristic tale.

[lorindol@sopuli.xyz]

I had this book when I was a child.

The illustrations are permanently burned to my mind's eye.

[saledovil@sh.itjust.works]

She was burned alive because she played with matches.

[acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org]

wasn't she burned alive for playing with fire?

[samsy@lemmy.ml]

Me too. Can't forget the child who starves to death. Drawing stick figures was a pain.

[samsy@lemmy.ml]

You can stick a lot of German words together, but it isn't easy to give this mess a meaning. It isn't normally used. More than 3 is blasphemy.

[samsy@lemmy.ml]

Most of the book yes, but the kid with animal cruelty and the racism story, were good stuff.

[samsy@lemmy.ml]

But how? In a Final Destination flow, where the audience is thinking: "oh boy, these kids will all die after school."

[sasquash@sopuli.xyz]

Wo sind die Eltern wo?

[yesman@lemmy.world]

German fairy tales are dark

laughs in Irish.

[yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de]

Zu Hilf'! Das Kind brennt lichterloh!

[undergroundoverground@lemmy.world]

Burned alive for using the wrong sewing technique / burned alive for worshiping the wrong god or maybe the "right" God but, in the wrong way, who knows?

Either way, somehow, someway, the idea of being burned alive for not following rules seems to be almost literally burned deep into the Germanic saxon psyche.

They're not a humourless people. They're just terrified someone might catch them not working or following the rules.

[freeman@feddit.org]

I still remember the soup standing ontop of the grave of the boy that didnt want to eat and so he just died. Also how thin he was in the last drawing of him. It was haunting.

[freeman@feddit.org]

He made the book for a child in hid family without the intent of publishing it originally

[onionguy@lemm.ee]

Chillax madude i'm German myself. And I think it has more to do with how the Nazis shaped child education than some Germanic Saxon thing from wayback.
Read about the Nazi education Ideology of Johanna Haarer whose dark "pedagogic" methods were influential until even long after the downfall of Nazi Germany.