Goosestepping Germans

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LONDON (Reuters) - No one in Germany knows the goosestep any more, but German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer says anyone wanting lessons in the military march used by the Nazis could get them from Britain.


Fischer, born three years after World War Two ended, said in an interview with BBC radio on Wednesday that he was amazed at the lingering portrayal of Germany in the British media as a nation of Nazis and said the image of Germany was half a century out of date.


"My children are 20 and 25, and when they watch Germany in some of the British media, they think this is a picture they have never seen in their whole lifetimes," said Fischer, 56.


"Germany has changed in a democratic, positive way," he added. "Today this is a democracy. Two or three generations have grown up as real democrats.


"If you want to learn how the traditional Prussian goosestep works, you have to watch British TV because in Germany in the younger generation, even my generation, nobody knows how to perform it," Fischer said.