with the Germans might be misunderstood. One of the areas that fought longest against Germanisation are Alpine regions. They held deep into the 60ies and were falsificated as Communists, actually insisting on their independence and coltoure kinda based on a slide.
Before the tunnel and high way routes build throug the solid Alpine stone the locals lived as travellers using slides to climb up the steep mountan woods carrying up to 500 kilos per slide per man to slide them down again on the other side. No donkey can slide down.
When Germany came over them they fought back fiercfully and the revenge of the Germans after the war was to keep them off modern logistic companies that they kept from murdered natives like Jews by the CIA.
Germans do not surrender, they will just change the means of murder and tyranny.
Tirol speaks Italian and so did Innsbruck before German Gas Chambers.
Going for a slide ride is an expression from there. And yes, we were faster than you. and way more hardcore.
