Pride and Prejudices and “Totalausfall”

Why Germany’s “Coming-to-Terms” with its Nazi past has not only failed but backfired.

Since the beginning of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Germany has shocked much of the world by its callous response. In essence and with far too few exceptions, the German elites – in government, media, and culture as well – have chosen to support Israel’s assault and, at home, to aggressively suppress any criticism of it, habitually by smearing it as “anti…