The Alternative for Germany (AfD) will seek power in next year's state elections. Civil society groups are alarmed, as are security services, which have found that some of its factions represent extremist threats.
It’s very generous to call the Germans victims of the Nazis when in reality both east and west Germany have been defacto run by former Nazis. There hasn’t been a proper denazification ever, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung has a lot of material on this.
It’s true that other countries are going down the same route but Germany is not a country of Nazi victims it is a country of descendants of Nazi perpetrators. There could have been a proper restart but it just never happened.
The neighbors of Germany are not Germany itself, but other countries.
How does your comment even refute that statement that you apparently thought I wrote? The Germans who actually wanted the Nazi regime were a minority, though a large one. The first victims of the regime were German opposition politicians/activists, German gay people, German disabled, German jews etc. There were Germans who were perpetrators and Germans who were victims (and some who were both), the country was not a monolith.
Also, many other countries were fairly enthusiastic about the Nazi regime and racism in general, they just didn’t like getting attacked by the Germans. UK and France were still colonial regimes, and the US literally had Nazi rallies, still had extremely racist laws (still do, but it got better in the 1960s) and was also a colonial power.
Also, many other countries were fairly enthusiastic about the Nazi regime
I think most countries in the world (have) had political parties or factions which were fascists or sympathetic to them in the 1930’s. I mean, also in the Vatican for example.
It’s very generous to call the Germans victims of the Nazis when in reality both east and west Germany have been defacto run by former Nazis. There hasn’t been a proper denazification ever, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung has a lot of material on this.
It’s true that other countries are going down the same route but Germany is not a country of Nazi victims it is a country of descendants of Nazi perpetrators. There could have been a proper restart but it just never happened.
You didn’t read properly. The “victim” part refers to the neighbours of Germany which mostly were victims of Germany in WW2.
The neighbors of Germany are not Germany itself, but other countries.
How does your comment even refute that statement that you apparently thought I wrote? The Germans who actually wanted the Nazi regime were a minority, though a large one. The first victims of the regime were German opposition politicians/activists, German gay people, German disabled, German jews etc. There were Germans who were perpetrators and Germans who were victims (and some who were both), the country was not a monolith.
Also, many other countries were fairly enthusiastic about the Nazi regime and racism in general, they just didn’t like getting attacked by the Germans. UK and France were still colonial regimes, and the US literally had Nazi rallies, still had extremely racist laws (still do, but it got better in the 1960s) and was also a colonial power.
I think most countries in the world (have) had political parties or factions which were fascists or sympathetic to them in the 1930’s. I mean, also in the Vatican for example.
Found some incomplete wiki list.