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> As a 'West German' I can assure you that this was not the case. Germans after WWII were fascist like before. That is what I was trying to say; I'm sorry if I
by jlg23 11y ago
> As a 'West German' I can assure you that this was not the case. Germans after WWII were fascist like before.
That is what I was trying to say; I'm sorry if I did not manage to express that properly by crossing the line to cynicism. I wholeheartedly agree with your summary of post-WW2 Germany - parts of my family later claimed they never liked Hitler but that they had been fighting in WW2 for Kaiser Wilhelm!
A good watch for people interested in post-WW2 Germany's way of coping with recent history is "We Cellar Children"[1] (boy hides communist during WW2 in basement, then his fascist father just after WW2 and then he is finally arrested later on for painting a swastika on a wall after a journalist asked him to do so for a report...)
I don't agree with your implication that "fascist thinking" is a thing of the past in Germany - but that's yet another topic.
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054479/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054479/
- lispm 11y ago> I don't agree with your implication that "fascist thinking" is a thing of the past in Germany 'fascist thinking' in general will never be a thing of the past. Not in Germany and not in many other countries. But the level of fascist thinking is relatively low in Germany - compared to the decades before or even to some of the neighbor countries (hungary, poland, ...).