By the way........exactly this kind of wallowing in the misery of the past.....this ridiculous pretense that all of modern German history since the Napoleonic wars was an inevitable prelude to Hitler....what I call the “all roads lead to Hitler” idea is exactly why Germany is such a self loathing, spineless, multi-Kulti mess today despite having a lot of things going for it.
It happened. It was hideously awful but....in the end it was 12 years. It was not all of German history. It was not the inevitable product of a uniquely sick culture. Having some pride in your heritage and some self respect does not make you a Nazi. Other countries *cough* Russia, France, etc *cough* have had brutal warlike tyrants too. They moved on from them without feeling some kind of sick need to chop their own balls off to atone. It’s long past time for Germany to get over it and start acting like a normal country........that absolutely means carrying its own weight militarily instead of freeloading off of others. It also means deporting the scum of the earth they imported to take the place of the kids they never had.
Pretty much Germany has done some cool things. Beer, bratwurst, charming architecture, some very cool cars in the 1970s. What boring human male wouldn’t love a BMW 2000 or a 2002? They gave us cuckoo clocks and some very wonderful cuisine. They give us the Nurburgring. They gave us Zeppelins. They have contributed to science. They gave us aspirin. They give us Oktoberfest.
But in government and philosophy... they have been an -unmitigated- disaster. They gave us communism, nazisim, and the control freak Prussian crap that infects many areas of America to this day. (of particular note, the federal bureaucrat and the educational system)
When a German speaks of government or philosophy, they should be laughed out of the room.