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I've never been to Germany, i wonder if that's a really taboo area for them. Possibly is, still funny though.
It is. Still plenty of people old enough to have lived through WWII.
It's not like it's a 'don't mention the war' topic for everyone, though. Just have to pick your audience. Like you can make a joke about Port Arthur here if you are that way inclined, but I wouldn't do it in Port Arthur. Depending where you are in the US people's views on certain topics are very different. 'So this atheist, pro-choice, Union-loyalist walks into a bar...' won't go down well in a country town in the South. My German friends who watch UK and UK comedies aren't sensitive about it. But they are all young enough to have pretty much grown up only in unified Germany.