Finally, one day, I asked her, Did it every occur to you, that the Soviets would attack the U.K. and the U.S. first, in order to isolate Germany?
Well, her eyebrows went up on that one; and no, she had never even thought about it. She just read, over and over, that, according to Der Spiegel, she was the target because the missiles were in her back yard and thus she posed a threat.
She never ever considered any other possibility, and on other topics, that required more thinking about what was beyond the socialist menu of the day, Der Spiegel.
typical german.