[Bonemaker]

Germany’s mistake is Merkel. They seem to have a penchant for electing leaders who wind up destroying the country. They recovered magnificently from the Hitler debacle only to (probably) being permanently unsalvageable under the commie hag Merkel. But then we should talk ...8 years of Obama.

[Olog-hai]

But did they? Look into Konrad Adenauer a little deeper and his overtures towards the USSR, never mind the inspiration for their Basic Law (very socialistic; compare the Soviet one). And then there was Willy Brandt a couple of decades later. Add the influences coming from the former DDR on top of all that, and what can one expect, really?