A piece I wrote after I told a few people I was born in Germany, their immediate response was “Heil Hitler” even though I was only there for the first two weeks of my life.
This is a small piece of work on birth places which infuriates me. It does so because I happened to be born in a British Military Hospital (Rinteln) in Germany because my father made a decision to serve our country, to be commanded where to live and what to do. Apparently, because I was born in Germany it makes me a German, even though I lived there for a very short period of my life before moving to Woodbridge in England.
After that, I have lived in England my entire life apart from the one or two years spent in Northern Ireland. I speak English but not German, none of my relatives were born in Germany or speak German so I suppose that means that I ‘am’ German. I don’t think so, however, everyone else seems to think so and sometimes individuals take it as far as calling me a Nazi and sending me pictures of Hitler by e-mail. Mature? I don’t think so.
It all started in the golden years, back in year four at Dry Sandford School in Oxfordshire. I made the mistake of telling my friends that I was born in BMH Rinteln, Germany and I didn’t hear the end of it. My father made a sacrifice to be told what to do and where to live so he was forced to go to Germany with my mother. During those two years he was stationed there I happened to be born, in a British Military Hospital. Not many people understand the word British so I will, there’s a big blob of land above France and you know what? It’s called Britain. Something that belongs to Britain, apart of Britain, made in Britain etc is British therefore that hospital was a British hospital.
I lived on a British camp after my birth for a month or two before we were told that we would be moving back to England where I have lived for 14 years. I speak the language, my dad was born here and currently serves his country and has done for twenty years, and I have bloody English flags and know all the words to God Save the Queen (originally named God Save the King) for god’s sake. On another note, people who use the Hitler insults are going against their own dumb logic because Hitler was born in Austria and lived there for 24 years. However, you we still think of Hitler as being German and he was in his birth country a hell of a lot longer then me, about one hundred times longer in fact.
But just because you were born in some country that isn’t where you currently live does that make you of that nationality? In my opinion, no it does not. This is because several other factors have to be taken into account like, for example the places you have lived, the language you speak, your relative’s origins and attributes etc. You’ve also got to remember that BMH Rinteln is BRITISH.
So to top off the argument…I was born in Germany yes, that does not however, make me a German and I wish some people could realise how insulting it is to be called a nationality that you’re not. To support my side of this argument I have lived in England for ninety percent of my life so far, I speak English and only English, I have been educated in England and I have no relatives in any other European country. So the next time you’re thinking of insulting me or any other British citizen in my position about their country of birth, think once, think twice, and then shove off (to put it kindly).
I was born in Rinteln, Germany in 1996 in the British military hospital and lived there for 3 months before my Father got ‘posted’ back to England where we lived In a Army camp in Upavon for 13 years and then moved to netheravon army camp for a further 2 years. But luckily people i go to school with dont relly care with the fact i was born in Germany, But i to when going on holiday through passport patrol through Isreal got stopped and asked about my Birth Place and was espeacilly scary as all the people had Guns and weapons all on them staring at me like i was filth :/ Gladly nothing was made of this matter 
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I was born in Rinteln, Germany in 1996 in the British military hospital and lived there for 3 months before my Father got \’posted\’ back to England where we lived In a Army camp in Upavon for 13 years and then moved to netheravon army camp for a further 2 years. But luckily people i go to school with dont relly care with the fact i was born in Germany, But i to when going on holiday through passport patrol through Isreal got stopped and asked about my Birth Place and was espeacilly scary as all the people had Guns and weapons all on them staring at me like i was filth :/ Gladly nothing was made of this matter xxx
I was born in Rinteln, Germany in 1996 in the British military hospital and lived there for 3 months before my Father got \’posted\’ back to England where we lived In a Army camp in Upavon for 13 years and then moved to netheravon army camp for a further 2 years. But luckily people i go to school with dont relly care with the fact i was born in Germany, But i to when going on holiday through passport patrol through Isreal got stopped and asked about my Birth Place and was espeacilly scary as all the people had Guns and weapons all on them staring at me like i was filth :/ Gladly nothing was made of this matter xxx
I was born in Rinteln, Germany in 1996 in the British military hospital and lived there for 3 months before my Father got \\\’posted\\\’ back to England where we lived In a Army camp in Upavon for 13 years and then moved to netheravon army camp for a further 2 years. But luckily people i go to school with dont relly care with the fact i was born in Germany, But i to when going on holiday through passport patrol through Isreal got stopped and asked about my Birth Place and was espeacilly scary as all the people had Guns and weapons all on them staring at me like i was filth :/ Gladly nothing was made of this matter xxx
I was born in Rinteln, Germany in 1996 in the British military hospital and lived there for 3 months before my Father got \\\’posted\\\’ back to England where we lived In a Army camp in Upavon for 13 years and then moved to netheravon army camp for a further 2 years. But luckily people i go to school with dont relly care with the fact i was born in Germany, But i to when going on holiday through passport patrol through Isreal got stopped and asked about my Birth Place and was espeacilly scary as all the people had Guns and weapons all on them staring at me like i was filth :/ Gladly nothing was made of this matter xxx
I was born in Rinteln, Germany in 1996 in the British military hospital and lived there for 3 months before my Father got \\\’posted\\\’ back to England where we lived In a Army camp in Upavon for 13 years and then moved to netheravon army camp for a further 2 years. But luckily people i go to school with dont relly care with the fact i was born in Germany, But i to when going on holiday through passport patrol through Isreal got stopped and asked about my Birth Place and was espeacilly scary as all the people had Guns and weapons all on them staring at me like i was filth :/ Gladly nothing was made of this matter xxx
I was born in Rinteln, Germany in 1996 in the British military hospital and lived there for 3 months before my Father got \\\’posted\\\’ back to England where we lived In a Army camp in Upavon for 13 years and then moved to netheravon army camp for a further 2 years. But luckily people i go to school with dont relly care with the fact i was born in Germany, But i to when going on holiday through passport patrol through Isreal got stopped and asked about my Birth Place and was espeacilly scary as all the people had Guns and weapons all on them staring at me like i was filth :/ Gladly nothing was made of this matter xxx
I was born in Rinteln, Germany in 1996 in the British military hospital and lived there for 3 months before my Father got \\\’posted\\\’ back to England where we lived In a Army camp in Upavon for 13 years and then moved to netheravon army camp for a further 2 years. But luckily people i go to school with dont relly care with the fact i was born in Germany, But i to when going on holiday through passport patrol through Isreal got stopped and asked about my Birth Place and was espeacilly scary as all the people had Guns and weapons all on them staring at me like i was filth :/ Gladly nothing was made of this matter xxx
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