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-Then why not talk about that instead of going off into the realms of nonsense?
You made your argument, I came back at it, then you went off on one.
Most of your point was "you can see this here" rather than actually making your own point with your own presentation.
Denazification happened under the British and American sectors, it did not happen under the Soviet sector. Racism in Germany is more prevalent in Soviet sectors that became the former East Germany.
Whether you committed crimes in WW2 isn't the issue here. The issue here is that West Germany people felt this guilt even though they didn't do anything.
It's part of the national psyche. You don't have to agree with this psyche or attitude, but it's clearly there. There are enough articles about it to fill a large library
Are Today's Germans Morally Responsible for the Holocaust?
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Are Today's Germans Morally Responsible for the Holocaust?"
You wouldn't write such an article if Germany didn't feel a certain amount of collective guilt.
Denazification can mean various things. You could say the East carried out Denazification in that they had "re-education camps", but this was to make people "good Communists" or whatever.
The BIG difference between East Germany and West Germany was the "collective guilt".
The NPD existed in Germany from 1964. In 1969 they gained their highest ever West German result of 3.6% and then went downhill from there never to get above 1% again in West Germany.
In 2005 and 2009 they moved up to 1.8% of the vote, the best since 1969.
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Membership is most in the East.
Now your argument was about unemployment. Well, the NPD started to do better in 2005. At this time unemployment in Germany hit a high. However unemployment DROPPED in the years after. By 2013 unemployment was much lower, okay it was still a bit higher in the former East Germany, but it was still much lower. So why the support for the NPD?
What about Austria the East Germans who didn't become Communist?
Why are they much more Nationalist than other German speakers too?
The Austrians were basically told that they were taken over by the Germans, so it wasn't their fault. They didn't need to do any soul searching at all, and so they've remained more racist and more nationalistic.
Well, why is Austria more Nationalist, and Racist than Ireland?
Surely, Austria has more guilt for WW2 than Ireland, no?
East Germany voted in the Nazis more too, it appears.
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I'm not sure why you're comparing Austria with Ireland, I don't see the connection. Ireland is racist and nationalistic?
Northern Ireland has its problems, but the southern Ireland?
As for the voted pre-WW2, er.... what's that got to do with anything. A lot of people died, a lot of people were misplaced and a lot of people got out of there before the wall went up, so....
I don't get the connection either. Unless he means the Irish Republic was sympathetic to Nazi Germany during WW2.
The Irish Republic was neutral in World War II despite the fact that Germans often attacked Irish shipping and bombed the Irish homeland.