I consider them intelligent, down-to-earth, rational, practical people, the nation of great inventors (Roentgen, Benz, Daimler, Mercedes) and composers (Wagner, Schubert, Valkyrie) etc. What pushed them into such a folly, twice?
I am sorry, I forgot to add great German writers: Geothe, Faust, Remarque, Grass.
In Remarque`s
All Quiet on the Western Front there is a scene when the narrator recalls his school time:
"Does it go: 'We Germans fear God and none else in the whole world,'
or 'We, the Germans, fear God and–––' " I submit.How true is this sentence today? And yesterday?