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highplainsdem

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2. I like that! Btw, DU's thread and reply titles disappear any letters with accents marks. like a U with an umlaut.

Reply to Dave Bowman (Reply #1)

Sun May 25, 2025, 04:24 PM

May 25

A word like Dingdongführer will show up properly in the rest of the message. But you have to omit the accent marks in the titles.

And I probably should have written Fuehrerprinzip in the thread title.

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Timothy Snyder: As for many other things there is a German word for this, which is Fuhrerprinzip. [View all] highplainsdem May 25 OP

I prefer to call him Dingdongfuhrer. Dave Bowman May 25 #1

I like that! Btw, DU's thread and reply titles disappear any letters with accents marks. like a U with an umlaut. highplainsdem May 25 #2

Yes, I had to edit my post a few times because of the accent mark. 🙂 Dave Bowman May 25 #3

More specifically, it was a word coined by the Nazis. DavidDvorkin May 25 #4