Truthfully, I think it matters much less that his father was a Nazi, than the Germanic concept of freedoms being different from the American one.
For instance, Germans adore the freedom of riding on the Autobahn at the maximum safe speed for your vehicle, assuming you are obeying all other traffic laws. Whereas, they are appalled by the political expression they read in the US print. German journalists were taken to court for suggesting their president used hair dye.
And Germans are especially uptight over things like health and safety laws and public education. And this is where Arnold is coming from.
When there is an epidemic in Germany or Austria, civil rights go right out the window. And the public are all in favor of it.
He isn’t German. Hes Australian.
That has also been my experience.
It’s a German thing...
And yet Germans have always been the #1 immigrant group, and the strongest genetic component to American ethnicity. Never mind the heavy cultural influences. ;-)
People in Germany today are arrested for expressions of political thought the political establishment dislikes. That’s it. Not for harming anybody else. For engaging in wrongthink. Today.
“Screw your Freedom” - the eternal German