also worked in Germany, after the Auf Wiedersehen series. The real world involves much more interaction with Germans than on the telly. And generally i liked them.

Auf Weidersehen was a brit ghetto in Germany. Its portrayal of Germans seems to have been from the 1950's. It would be considered racist today.

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I don't doubt somebody will find offence in it and consider it racist, but someone always does.

To me it's just a good representation of working class males in a foreign environment and perhaps experiencing working alongside non-Brits for the first time.

The use of the words Kraut and Fritz was common then, as was referring to the French as Frogs and Italians as Itis.

I'm not sure that I entirely agree with your suggestion that the the portrayal of the Germans was from the 50s. I haven't seen the programme for a while but I seem to recall the Germans were the shown in a fairly neutral light and weren't set up as exaggerated caricatures.

Fair points, but as the bloke you're replying to worked there, no doubt there's something to his take on it too

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‘’Spend a night In Newcastle and you’ll consider yourself middle class.’’

This was used by Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais before in ‘Porridge’ by Fletch to Godber using Glasgow in front of Mr Mackay

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