Wandering Adventure Party

@independentpen @LeBonk @Dtraslerwriting @rayocentric @D_J_Nathanson @mekkaokereke what is true, though:
Holocaust denial is a criminal offence in Germany, as is the overt use of several Nazi symbols (such as, but not limited to, Swastika, Hitler Salute, the SS rune) for purposes other than documentation.
And yes, if you’ve gone through German secondary school, you will have learned about the gas chambers, and Gen Y and later will most likely have visited a concentration camp.

@independentpen @LeBonk @Dtraslerwriting @rayocentric @D_J_Nathanson @mekkaokereke as anything involving humans: it’s messy.
As an absolute, the statement “the Holocaust AND Hitler were horrible” is *not* uncontroversial in Germany, and has not been for a long time (if ever) in the western parts:
The sentence “not everything was bad under Hitler/the Nazis” or some flavour of it was very much a thing you’d hear, as is “X years of remembrance must be enough!”
So I don’t think we nearly did enough.

@LeBonk @independentpen @Dtraslerwriting @rayocentric @D_J_Nathanson @mekkaokereke (not so) sorry to rain on your parade:
I wouldn’t call our denazification project a success story.
We had WAY too many Nazis in influential positions during the Cold War. This was true for judges, professors, police, etc.
Sadly, the English Wikipedia is missing all the NSDAP/SS ties of the BKA, and only has an article for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dickopf, but that one’s a good primer on the founders of our federal police…