To quote George Bailey's Germans: "To say that Germans generally are children and infantile is not say that they are playful. Children are not knowingly playful--or if they are, play is not to them what it is to grown-ups. In it's passion for the game the child is utterly serious--and that is what makes the game so much fun. For "fun" in it's root meaning is deceit(in the sense of diversion--to take the mind off a line of thought and turn it toward another)....The Austrians make a game of something serious; the Germans make something serious a game. This is what Seyss-Inquart was getting at when he said that Hitler would have never amounted to much if he had remained in South Germany."
