I see the necessity in the moment and I do not blame the original set-up of the federal structures by the allied forces. In fact they were expertly carved out to on the one hand minimise the chances of a second “Hitler” while on the other hand maximise governmental and economic efficacy.
My point is rather that we must not underestimate the long term influence these people and their ideology exert. They may not have been the top decision makers, but over time they will attract likeminded people and foster parallel structures. If not actively managed/eliminated they will, on the long run, try to employ the same tactics again in order to come to power. And this is what we see today in many western countries, not only Germany.
Oh yeah absolutely, my point is that those legacies are a result of the right process not being applied thoroughly enough.
When you track modern legacies of systemic racism in western Europe you’ll usually be able to track it back to a collaborator or Nazi officer who slipped through the cracks. The brutality of the modern French national police being a key example.
You could do something similar with the US, as modern legacies of systemic racism often track back to confederates and confederate sympathizers, or important figures within especially bad administrations like the Jackson Admin, the Wilson Admin, the Reagan Admin, and the Nixon Admin.
Wilson in particular I hold responsible for the sheer scope of America’s foreign policy atrocities and failures, he was the one who coined the infamous world police narrative when he didn’t want to look like a flip flopper joining WWI after being against it. You can draw a straight line from Afghanistan and Iraq all the way back to that shitbag’s bad decision making.
I see the necessity in the moment and I do not blame the original set-up of the federal structures by the allied forces. In fact they were expertly carved out to on the one hand minimise the chances of a second “Hitler” while on the other hand maximise governmental and economic efficacy.
My point is rather that we must not underestimate the long term influence these people and their ideology exert. They may not have been the top decision makers, but over time they will attract likeminded people and foster parallel structures. If not actively managed/eliminated they will, on the long run, try to employ the same tactics again in order to come to power. And this is what we see today in many western countries, not only Germany.
Oh yeah absolutely, my point is that those legacies are a result of the right process not being applied thoroughly enough.
When you track modern legacies of systemic racism in western Europe you’ll usually be able to track it back to a collaborator or Nazi officer who slipped through the cracks. The brutality of the modern French national police being a key example.
You could do something similar with the US, as modern legacies of systemic racism often track back to confederates and confederate sympathizers, or important figures within especially bad administrations like the Jackson Admin, the Wilson Admin, the Reagan Admin, and the Nixon Admin.
Wilson in particular I hold responsible for the sheer scope of America’s foreign policy atrocities and failures, he was the one who coined the infamous world police narrative when he didn’t want to look like a flip flopper joining WWI after being against it. You can draw a straight line from Afghanistan and Iraq all the way back to that shitbag’s bad decision making.
What I‘ve always wished for in Germany: a new and permanent de-nazifcation office. Let me dream…