While Steinmeier may be contrite, Merkel runs Germany as the Fourth Reich, only with the force of personality and the weight of the German economy, instead of with military force.
While Steinmeier may be contrite,
Steinmeier isn’t being contrite. He’s an old school SPD pinko trying to score political points here linking Nazi Germany with modern day opposition to his politics. You’ll know he is genuinely contrite when he refers to WW2 “German” concentration camps instead of the usual “Nazi” concentration camps the Germans use to cloak responsibility for them. That won’t be happening, of course.