[Blzbba]

"We are looking at a crime on a scale that, as far as I can remember, has never been seen in the history of the Federal Republic," "


Assuming the 'history of the Federal Republic' started in approximately the summer of 1945....

[StarCMC]

I had the EXACT same thought.

[liberal whiner]

"We are looking at a crime on a scale that, as far as I can remember, has never been seen in the history of the Federal Republic,"

Assuming the 'history of the Federal Republic' started in approximately the summer of 1945....

The history of the Federal Republic of Germany started in 1949, with its foundation. Before that, Germany was called "Deutsches Reich", meaning "German Empire". Joerg Schoenbohm implicitly excluded the hideous crimes of Nazi Germany when he said "Federal Republic".