This is moronic . Gaza will have to be occupied and denazified first
Denazification didn't work in Germany, what makes you think it will work in Palestine?
How did it not work ?
- We turned Germany into a stable democracy pretty quickly just years after being led by the most evil regime in history . Germany also didn’t have a history of being a stable democracy as the Weimar Republic was a complete mess and the German Empire wasn’t really a monarchy
- We turned a nation that has been the biggest enemy to the West for 3 quarters of a century into one of our biggest Allies
- We even broke the toxic parts of Prussian nationalism that led Germans down not only the Nazi path but also their WW1 regime too
1. Germany had a long history of liberalism and parliamentarianism to work with (the Imperial
Reichstag very much was
not a rubber stamp body, even if it wasn’t as powerful as say, the UK parliament or US congress). The Nazi regime was arguably more of an aberration in German history than Weimar was.
2. I’m not a fan of the term ‘the West’ in general, but excluding the Germans from it at any point reduces the concept to total incoherence.
3. ‘Prussian nationalism’ (although I assume you mean Prussian militarism) as a driving factor behind the Nazi regime is largely a myth.
Anyway, Denazification did fail in the short term after World War II, as it was impossible to ‘Denazify’ a society in which so many had been party members or various other categories of
Mitläufer. Just because the country returned to having a liberal parliamentary system does not mean that most Germans of the period necessarily accepted that everything done during the Nazi regime was wrong (and of course vast numbers of former party members and
Miltäufer returned to positions in the government, military, business etc during the postwar period). Since the 1960s, Germany has developed a rather unique and self-effacing (one might call it self-flagellating) attitude, but that was very much due to an internal re-evaluation of Germany’s history by (generally) younger generations than due to anything imposed upon Germany by the Allies.
