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Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore: "The only good Kraut is a dead Kraut"

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
May 1, 2012
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Submitted by Hank on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 07:30
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Are there any Nazis still left living? If so, British astronomer Sir Patrick Moore is not a fan.

To mark the 55th anniversary of his astronomy TV show "The Sky At Night", Moore let an interviewer know what he really thinks about Britain's old enemy (and, ironically, the heritage of their current monarch), decades after his fiancée was killed by a Nazi bomb.

Though the Nazis are gone, Moore says Germany still wants world domination: "We must take care. There may be another war. The Germans will try again, given another chance. A Kraut is a Kraut is a Kraut. And the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut. A German general said to me at the end of the war, “You won two wars. You won’t win the third. And that’s the economic war.” I hope he’s wrong."

He conceded there "can be good, free, honourable, decent Germans" but added: "I haven’t met them myself, but I’m sure they exist."

and "I’m no European. Why? Go to Europe and look around. The Germans tried to conquer us. The French betrayed us. The Belgians did very little and the Italians made us our ice cream."

He's no William L. Shirer, but that's at least a unique take on history.

I still hate Germans: Patrick Moore attacks nation 70 years after Nazi bomb killed his fiancée by David Wilkes Daily Mail

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