re: #414 Dr Lizardo

I think Germany is a bit unique in this regard: prior to World War I, they were a world power. They lost and were stripped of most all of their power. They rebuilt their power base leading into World War II. Then they lost again. The country was partitioned and basically frozen out of any sort of international power. I’m not sure you can be honest about your past the way Germany is unless your country/regime is so crushed that you effectively lose your place as a world or regional power. That’s probably part of our problem with the Lost Cause segment of the South - we didn’t bring the old confederacy to heel for a generation