The Allies imposed guilt on us. Yes.
And I have an idea: after the power elites in the West realized that this „cowing“ of the surviving West Germans, and instilling a national inferiority complex in them, with the help of those hellhounds from the Frankfurt School (a pox on them) had made their country supine and helpless, they said (possibly around 1960):
„Wow. That really worked like a charm. Let us apply this medicine to our own respective peoples, too.
This way our power will never be challenged - and we shall get the international big business community on our boat as well. They need mindless customers who pay indiscriminately for their goods, after all; not self-conscious individuals who can discern what is good for them and what is not“.
Just a thought. If there should be truth to my guess, Lord Acton would be vindicated once more: „Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely“.
“The Allies imposed guilt on us. Yes.’’ Like Hell they did!. You Germans, those of that generation anyway, were guilty the moment they put that shrieking , anti-Semitic Austrian misanthrope in power!
“Fuhrer befiehl wir Folgen!’’ they all screamed.
Let’s play, “What If?’’.
What if Nazi Germany had won the war, a war it had every intention OF winning
We wouldn’t be discussing this right know and I’d really know how to speak German.
“. Let us apply this medicine to our own respective peoples, too.
This way our power will never be challenged - and we shall get the international big business community on our boat as well. They need mindless customers who pay indiscriminately for their goods, after all; not self-conscious individuals who can discern what is good for them and what is not“. “
That is exactly what they did.
Note that as the Western Regimes became more discredited, they accelerated both the mass non-white immigration, and they criminalized any opposition to it.
And we also have the Repubs passing new laws against “Anti-Semitism” which weren’t seen to be needed before.