“I have been to Germany and I know the opinion of the people.”
Nasser is implying that, “Hey, I know the ordinary German on the street favors us over the Jews.” And in 1967, just 22 years after the end of WW2, there was likely a fair amount of truth to his statement. The official narrative from the government and media had long been that, from the late ‘40s onward, the fever broke and the Germans very badly regretted everything to do with Nazism and Hitler. Every decent German agreed that they’d been on the wrong side in the war, and that was that. The truth, however, was more complicated. I’ve talked to friends and family members who were stationed with the U.S. military in West Germany in the ‘50s and ‘60s, and the tales they tell are of interacting with a significant segment of the German population, particularly older people, who were still very angry at the outcome of the war and badly resented the American presence there.
I can’t figure out how to get a translation.
Interesting.