Saturday, May 22, 2010

German Sensitivity

My grandmother has been receiving, for the last few decades, a small monthly payment from the German government. Compensation, you know, for trying to exterminate her.

She recently asked me to translate for her this letter they sent. It's in dense official German and printed in small letters she can't really read. The letter informed her she was given a new identification number. It is to be used in all future communications with them.

Get it? They're assigning holocaust survivors identification numbers. How efficient...

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