There was a merry company at Marko’s this evening. At some point someone who hails from Bosnia mentioned a joke from Facebook. An illiterate fellow from Bosnia is writing to his wife from Germany, where he has been working for a while. She remains back home. A moment later the letter is written out on a piece of paper for everyone to see. Each word is rendered in symbols, including his and his wife’s names. He is threatening to kill her for her infidelity, the news of which has somehow reached him all the way from Bosnia. The letter is hilarious. But there is something about the letter that is even more hilarious than the poor fellow’s threat: the Bosnian symbol for Germany. It is a swastika, of course. The amazing bit was that no-one at Marko’s had even noticed it. It was so obvious that it warranted no comment whatsoever. No surprise that it is still outlawed in Germany so many years after World War II.