Even 20 Years After the Berlin Wall Fell

The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

Even 20 Years After the Berlin Wall Fell
“Germany Still Looking for Freedom From David Hasselhoff”–headline, Der Spiegel, Nov. 5

News of the Tautological
“Cops Seek Thieves”–headline, Alberni Valley (British Columbia) News, Nov. 5

Educational Schadenfreude
It’s a longtime sport of journalists and other critics: citing surveys finding that American schoolchildren are ignorant of basic historical facts. But it turns out that kids in at least one English-speaking land are even more ignorant than Americans, as the Herald of Glasgow, Scotland, reports:

One in 20 UK schoolchildren thought Adolf Hitler was a coach of the German football team, according to a survey.

As if it isn’t bad enough they can’t identify Hitler, they don’t even know that there’s no football in Germany!

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