GERMANS SAY DAILY STAR IS OUT OF ORDER

HUMOURLESS Germans accused the Daily Star of being “Kraut-bashing” bigots yesterday.

Under the headline Skin The Kraut, frothing football writer Matthias Paskowsky put the boot in over a series of Star exclusives.

“If English tabloid journalists get bored they seize immediately on Germany cliches,” Paskowsky hunbelievably claimed.

He went on to say we splash stories about “Hitler or towels” across Britain’s Most Successful Newspaper during “lonely and uninspiring moments”.

He was writing after we revealed the German World Cup squad had booked South Africa’s poshest hotel before they had even qualified for the tournament.

We went on to report the squad would appear in the event wearing black shirts that we quipped would be “Nazi-style”.

The German gutter press, including downmarket paper Bild, picked up on our revelations, sparking a flood of emailed complaints from their readers.

So we ran a third article pointing out our stories should be taken light-heartedly.

Slow-coach Paskowsky caught up five weeks later.

He laid into Star man Tom Savage, claiming: “Savage remembered the eternal trump card of the English tabloids: Hitler must be in the paper.

“That or towels, not any old towel but those reservation cards made from textile which German hotel guests use to grab the best places by the pool from English holidaymakers.”

But then bizarrely he wrote: “It would be either very naive or deliberately aggressive to take his words seriously.”

Paskowsky’s rant was in Spiegel Online.

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