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Old February 13th, 2023 #1
Farwell Kirk
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I keep noticing books with the Eifel Tower on the cover. They are always aimed at women and they always have a WWII based anti German plot line. Can someone explain to me how the Eifel Tower came to be a hate symbol ?
 
Old February 13th, 2023 #2
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Perhaps this?

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Old February 14th, 2023 #3
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The Eiffel Tower always reminds me of Las Vegas:

 
Old February 22nd, 2023 #4
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For info, Gustave Eiffel's real name was Gustave Bönickhausen. He worked under the name Eiffel because his family was from Marmagen, a German village in the Eifel region, a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium. So, in a way, the Eiffel tower is a work of German engineering (ditto for the Statue of Liberty, another notable work of Gustave Eiffel's) and should rather be called the Bönickhausen Tower. But the name Bönickhausen definitely sounded too German in France after the French military defeat of 1871 (Franco-Prussian War of 1870). At that time, Germanophobia was basic patriotism in humiliated France.
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Old October 16th, 2023 #5
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Another thing. If the cover shows airplanes flying overhead, you know it's going to be an anti-German hate novel.
 
Old October 17th, 2023 #6
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For info, Gustave Eiffel's real name was Gustave Bönickhausen. He worked under the name Eiffel because his family was from Marmagen, a German village in the Eifel region, a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium. So, in a way, the Eiffel tower is a work of German engineering (ditto for the Statue of Liberty, another notable work of Gustave Eiffel's) and should rather be called the Bönickhausen Tower. But the name Bönickhausen definitely sounded too German in France after the French military defeat of 1871 (Franco-Prussian War of 1870). At that time, Germanophobia was basic patriotism in humiliated France.
I didn't know that.
 
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Oh yeah, the gay Eiffel Tower....


 
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I didn't know that.
Glad you liked the info.
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