I was thinking that Merkle and her ilk should have been frogmarched into a forest and had bullets put in their heads but Germany is so paralyzed by its history that they weren’t willing to save themselves.
You are correct, I‘m afraid, Sir.
But, please, consider the circumstances. In those days, nobody could have foreseen that she would become such a destructive force.
It’s the same thing in history, again and again: the crystal ball, to see the future in, has unfortunately never been invented. Just imagine how much sorrow and pain throughout history could have been avoided🙁