Right out of a children's storybook

[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.

[finder585@lemmy.world]

Yo, is it too late to find another author? Asking for a friend.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

She must be one hell of a liar if her whole dress is on fire.

[undergroundoverground@lemmy.world]

And they say you guys are humourless!

I wasn't being too serious tbh. However, as we're here, I feel like fairytales might have been around a little bit longer than nazis.

You should read about how the Franks "christianised" German saxons and then cross reference that with the time period those kinds of fairytales come from, as we're swapping reading ideas.

[rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de]

Loved the book as a child

[fallowseed@lemmy.world]

they made a children's book out of the allied firebombings?

[samus12345@lemm.ee]

*Struwwelpeter

[samus12345@lemm.ee]

You know it's just a story because the cats give a shit.

[lgtm@discuss.tchncs.de]

Fuckin hell, can the Grimm brothers just leave me alone

[zink@programming.dev]

Well that explains why my psychiatrist’s nickname for me is “Peter, Philip, and Johnny in a trenchcoat.”

[saharamaleikuhm@feddit.org]

My grandma had the Struwwelpeter book. I did kinda enjoy it if I remember correctly. The guy cutting off a kid's fingers with his huge scissors did kinda creep me out tho.

[onionguy@lemm.ee]

I was particularily fond of the one where two boys play pranks on adults. Until they get ground to crumbs while alive and then fed to the geese in the end, that is...

[micutio@sh.itjust.works]

Max und Moritz! Always admired Wilhelm Busch's drawing style.

[drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world]

the fuck is wrong with you?