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Is Hans Gruber's army descended from Nazis?

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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They seem to speak and act in a very efficient, clipped, and militaristic fashion if they aren't. Or do Americans perceive European bad guys as being as bad as them?

[–] plusplus (467) 4 years ago

The "Volksfrei" movement in Die Hard is loosely based on the RAF, but close enough to change the dialogues in the German release.

[–] ajm2259 (128) 4 years ago

I doubt it, or at least they’re a little more open minded. If they were hard core Nazis they wouldn’t have brought along an Asian henchman or a black computer hacker.

[–] Etherdave (183) 4 years ago

We are meant to hate them, at least partly, because they are German. You may draw whatever conclusions you like from that.

[–] Strazdas (2472) 4 years ago

Europeans are just superior to americans.