By Jacques Schuster
(Die Welt)
If we look at the history of the Federal Republic, we see that Germans are not always very comfortable with themselves.
In all the domestic political debates conducted after 1949, the question arose sooner or later whether Bonn was not ultimately Weimar and whether it was not necessary, at this precise moment, to oppose the beginnings.
Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis fully accomplished their work.
They physically murdered half of Europe and psychologically their own compatriots.
Since then, the Germans have lost their serenity and faith in the strength of their democracy, which is rather strange.
Because despite all the mistakes that the Federal Republic made in tackling the dark part of its past, it managed to do something grandiose: the ruling guard of National Socialism did not return to power in the Federal Republic and the neo-Nazis did not manage to raise a counter-elite…
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