[PGR88]

Every other generation, the Germans seem to go off-the-rails pursuing some utopian political-religious scheme, and Europe pays the price.

[Rurudyne]

It takes the Germans time to catch up with whatever madness the French pioneered several generations prior.

[Charles Martel]

Every other generation, the Germans seem to go off-the-rails pursuing some utopian political-religious scheme, and Europe pays the price.

Yep, like a recurring nachtmahr.