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Ah yes, the girl that was burned alive for not using ze proper sewing technique, an all time German classic Gutenachtgeschichte.
She was burned alive because she played with matches.
wasn't she burned alive for playing with fire?
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.
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 and laughing isn't working.
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.
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. It's just a guess on my part of course.
Apologies for interrupting your work.