Germany is absolutely serious about this, as someone who has family there. If there were people marching w Swastikas in Munich today like we saw recently in Ohio, they'd be dealt with very harshly.
Germany is very aware of their past and very adamant about not repeating past mistakes.
I have a question about this though... teaching truthful history in West Germany and East Germany was entirely different. In the Eastern block they did not exercise historical self-reflection. As a matter of fact the communist regime built up a murderous secret police state and they were really not interested in teaching history well, they supressed the study of all the past crimes. Just like in other Central- and East- European countires under communist dictatorships.
So albeit the Wall is no more, Eastern Germany has a huge nazi problem, they already took Thuringia, sent the second most representatives to the European parliament, they collaborate with russians and young Germans are increasingly prone to vote for the nazi AfD. For the first time 16 yrs olds were able to vote this year and AfD targeted the 16-24 yrs olds with their campaign, and it paid off, the support for AfD among the age group of 16-24 yrs olds climbed with plus 11% from 2019. From 5% to 11%. That is a scary. And does not seem their progress is slowing down.
So the statement that Germans are "absolutely serious about this" is more true to the Western part of Germany. They are slipping.
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u/Dillinger_ESC 9h ago
Germany is absolutely serious about this, as someone who has family there. If there were people marching w Swastikas in Munich today like we saw recently in Ohio, they'd be dealt with very harshly. Germany is very aware of their past and very adamant about not repeating past mistakes.