Do German's need a new slogan are a change of policy

A multimillion-dollar campaign to boost Germans' low self-confidence has backfired after it emerged that its slogan was coined by the Nazis.
The $34 million "Du Bist Deutschland -- You Are Germany" -- campaign was devised to inspire Germans to stop moaning and do something good for their country.
Beethoven, Einstein and the sports stars Franz Beckenbauer and Michael Schumacher have been cited in advertisements encouraging Germans to take more pride in their homeland.
But a historian from Ludwigshafen has provoked an uproar with his discovery that the same "Du Bist Deutschland" cry was used at Nazi rallies in the 1930s.
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The campaign has been compared to the "I'm Backing Britain" campaign launched during the economic depression in the late 1960s.
Studies show that Germans are among the world's most pessimistic and unhappy peoples. The gloom stems mainly from Germany's economic woes and chronically high unemployment.
The Brit campaign was a bust too. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan showed the way to turn things around. The Germans need to have the courage to imitate her, and not old Nazi slogans.
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