The Anne Frank Train

[BobR]

It seems the Germans have a fancy new high speed train they want to name after Anne Frank.

Toward the end of 1944, after the Gestapo raided the Amsterdam canal house where they had hidden, Anne Frank and her family were crammed into a cattle wagon on a train bound for Auschwitz.



Now, 73 years after she boarded that wagon, leaving behind a diary that would one day be read around the world, Deutsche Bahn has announced that it plans to name a new high-speed train after her.

The idea of Germany’s state rail operator claiming one of the most enduring symbols of the Holocaust has prompted an outcry.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-train-called-anne-frank-german-railway-plan-prompts-outcry/ar-AAuhv8Q?li=BBnbcA1

Of course as with anything even slightly controversial I am sure the German Railway will rename the train. Is it in poor taste to name the train after Anne Frank, probably. Is it the end of the world, no. The railway was honoring someone but it seems they may have missed the mark by a couple of rings, out into the 7 maybe touching the 8 ring. They (the rail company) has said that the public suggestion to name the train after Anne Frank was a popular one when asking the public for names.

bob

[just Warren]

The Final Solution for your Travel Needs!

[Fly320s]

The Final Solution for your Travel Needs!

/End thread.

[MechAg94]

I was going to ask if it would haul box cars, but Warren's slogan is the winner.   

[slugcatcher]

Germans wonder why nobody can tell when they're joking.  I chuckle every time I see and Audi A4.  Although the Volkswagon Polo commercial was actually funny.  I keep expecting them to start a kitchen appliance company using the names of various concentration camps for the product lines.

[230RN]

The Final Solution for your Travel Needs!

Ooooowwwwwch!

       

[Fly320s]

Germans wonder why nobody can tell when they're joking.  I chuckle every time I see and Audi A4.  Although the Volkswagon Polo commercial was actually funny.  I keep expecting them to start a kitchen appliance company using the names of various concentration camps for the product lines.

Audi A4?

[230RN]

I thought he meant "an ad for the" Audi A4, so I dug around a little.  He may have meant this... which is a little avant.

https://youtu.be/jH3HzYvt5MI

But I guess he can answer for himself.

[Perd Hapley]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelbau-Dora#Background   ?

[slugcatcher]

The WW2 German A4 rocket is better known as the V2.  


Beat by Fistful. 

[Fly320s]

The WW2 German A4 rocket is better known as the V2.  


Beat by Fistful. 

Which is why the Audi A4 isn't a cringe worthy name.  Not many people know the V2 as the A4. 

[Regolith]

I thought he meant "an ad for the" Audi A4, so I dug around a little.  He may have meant this... which is a little avant.

https://youtu.be/jH3HzYvt5MI

But I guess he can answer for himself.

When the majority of the commercial is about stuff that has nothing to do with the car, I begin to wonder a bit about how great the car is...

[230RN]

I knew the A4 was the Vergeltungstwaffen zwei, but I thought it was a little bit of a stretch.

No offense, slugcatcher.

But I agree about the ad I posted.  "Progress through technology" is one thing, but boy, that ad was abstract to the point of being ridiculous.

Terry, 230RN

[Perd Hapley]

I liked the commercial - guess it was the Fatboy Slim. I had no idea what A4 meant. I just played a hunch, and googled "A4 concentration camp." That Wiki entry was one of the first results.

[Scout26]

The WW2 German A4 rocket is better known as the V2.  


Beat by Fistful. 

Go hang your head in shame, you can later come back and ask forgiveness...

[Jamisjockey]

Deutsche Bahn said that in September it had asked members of the public to give suggestions for names for its fourth generation of high-speed trains, receiving 19,400 responses, and that Anne Frank was among the most popular suggestions.

When I was in Utah they were expanding the light rail line, and looking for new names.
The hands down winner was Salt Lake Urban Transit.
The metro authority didn't use that one.

[MillCreek]

When I was in Utah they were expanding the light rail line, and looking for new names.
The hands down winner was Salt Lake Urban Transit.
The metro authority didn't use that one.

When they built a streetcar in Seattle to service the Amazon complex in south Lake Union, the city named it the South Lake Union Trolley.  You can get T-shirts about riding the SLUT: http://www.ridetheslut.com/

[slugcatcher]

I knew the A4 was the Vergeltungstwaffen zwei, but I thought it was a little bit of a stretch.

No offense, slugcatcher.

But I agree about the ad I posted.  "Progress through technology" is one thing, but boy, that ad was abstract to the point of being ridiculous.

Terry, 230RN

No offense taken.  It's funny to me.  Only a couple of my American co-workers got it.  Some of the Germans I worked with got it but not the ones that were born in East Germany oddly enough.

The add you posted was definitely beyond abstract.

[230RN]

OK on no offense.  Tell you what.  I'll make a deal with you.  I'll tell you what 230RN means if you'll tell me what slugcatcher means.

:)

Terry, 230RN

[Perd Hapley]

Does it just maybe refer to a 230-grain, round-nosed, .45 caliber bullet, as commonly used in the .45 Automatic cartridge?

[slugcatcher]

Beat by Fistful again.  This has been a bad week.

Slugcatcher came from my lack of prowess at on-line fps games back in the 90's.   

[Perd Hapley]

Beat by Fistful again.  This has been a bad week.

Slugcatcher came from my lack of prowess at on-line fps games back in the 90's.   

I have you beat there, too. I was so bad at GoldenEye, I would just direct my character into a room, and run in circles until someone managed to shoot me.

[230RN]

<sigh>

What's "fps games?"
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Oh.  Never mind.

https://www.crazygames.com/t/first-person-shooter

<sigh>

[freakazoid]

<sigh>

What's "fps games?"
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Oh.  Never mind.

https://www.crazygames.com/t/first-person-shooter

<sigh>

[Viking]

One railway company here had a poll on what to name their trains. One of them now proudly bears the name "Trainy McTrainface" .