And does anybody else find it hysterical to have the Germans think they have any moral authority to lecture people on being” civilized”?
Is this what I think it is: an attempt to deny Germany and Germans any claim to morality on the basis of the Nazi Regime which was crushed way back in 1945? Only a few of the very youngest men from that era are still alive and they are dying off quickly. Are you really trying to say that Germans will can’t make any non-hypocritical pronouncement of a moral nature even this long after World War II? If so, just when do Germans get that right? In another 50 years? 500 years? 5000 years? Or maybe just never again?
Nazism was crushed militarily in 1945 and a multinational foreign occupation kept very close tabs on the Germany for years after the war. Nazism was rooted out of institutions including schools and government and the Germans built a social democratic state along the lines of the Scandinavians. The Germans did some truly horrible things in World War II, of that there is no doubt whatever. But if anyone can be said to have gotten its act together since then, it is Germany. Surely Germans have earned the right to make the occasional moral pronouncement without having the Nazi era thrown back in their faces.
