Re:Germany's Nazi past rearing its head again (Score 1)

I hope you're just drawing flame here, cause if you're not, you gotta get your head examined. First of all, try to learn a bit of history before making claims about it. Because it is in fact not true that the nazi "only gradually" imposed restriction. Shortly after poland was anexed, jews were being executed by taking them into the forest and shooting them. The more industrialized approached was chosen because this method was deemed too slow and too demoralizing for the ss-officers that did the shooting. So a slipery slope argument really doesn't hold here, but that's really besides the point. The fact of the matter is, that germans are still very keenly aware of the past of their country and that for the most part, they do a good job at preventing the government from gaining unreasonable authority. A very good example of this, is the recent decision by the equivalent of the supreme court, that the airforce can under no circumstance shoot down a civilian aircraft, even if this might ultimately crash into a building and kill lots of people. This was based on two arguments. The first being that the government does not have the right to decide over life and death of its citizens, even if killing a few means saving many. The second being that the german military can under no circumstance be deployed against its own population. One might agree or disagree with these arguments, but one cannot claim that there is a significant resemblance the the current german culture and the nazi regime. The fact that as a rule they are rather law abiding, does not change that.