Yes, yes, Italian population didn't want nuclear too. It was a stupid decision then, looks even stupider now. I welcome Germany to the Italian energy prices. And a lot of coal plants too - the true face of their solar/wind revolution and one of the worst sources of pollution ever devised by humanity.
By the way, from the link you posted:
""During this four decade long campaign, start-up think tanks, academic scholars, and professionals with nuclear industry experience, among others, were instrumental in convincing most Germans of three main points: 1) nuclear energy is a high-risk technology; 2) renewable energies are viable; 3) and there is no fail-safe way to dispose of radioactive waste.""
Good work in convicing gullible people of false things and actually shoving a way worst solution down their throats as a consequence!
1) Untrue. It is one of the energy production method that has created the least damages historically. Compare deaths-by-coal to deaths-by-nuclear.
2) Untrue. We should pursue solar/wind to their maximum potential, true, but they cannot provide base power to the grid without country-sized batteries and we are a long way from that. That is way Germany is building coal plants at a massive rate - they've added to the grid too much intermittent sources.
3) Untrue. The real dangerous stuff is only a tiny fraction of nuclear waste, an nuclear waste as a whole is only a fraction of, for example, toxic byproducts of coal burning at comparable energy production rates.
tl;dr if you don't want nuclear you want coal and coal is worse in every respect.