[MuttTheHoople]

Germany's problems came long before Hitler and the Nazis, long before the Kaiser. They came when the majority of Germans began losing their faith in Jesus Christ. Once, the German States were the bulwark of Protestant Christianity in Europe, and were strong Catholics as well.

In the 18th and 19th Centuries, you had German philosophers and theologians who attempted to remove God from the centerpiece of German life. Some thought the Lord made man perfectable, some simply went for the end of belief in God.

The Germans I've met over the years are extremely intelligent...and have NO belief nor faith in God, even ones who are clergy. Most are humanists of one form or another. Their turning away from God and turning to their own superiority has led Germans to be very arrogant about their superiority, and this has been long before the Nazis and continues to this day.

[TigerLikesRooster]

The Germans I've met over the years are extremely intelligent

They can be extremely intelligent but they can be also "extremely blind."

[Olog-hai]

The USSR preached humanism too.

And much of what Marx wrote was antisemitic, proclaiming the god of the Jews to be “money”.