It can no longer be overlooked (Der Spiegel No 46, pp 126-139, "The War Game".): The Heroic comes back, the Warlike, hard, inexorable.
After it for decades carefully exorcised, inexorably expelled and even put a punishable offense, it is now in demand in Germany again.
The Germans had almost six decades, the applicable "Never again war" to its utmost priority and enshrined even in their constitution, that they would apply only in a case of defense ever again take up arms, but, meanwhile, a new era was ushered in.
The new era began almost imperceptibly, and sycophantic. It was of "responsibility" is mentioned. The break was initiated by a purely external completely unwarlike, yes unsoldierly, most unsportsmanlike, sometimes even downright flabby figure. This was all the more convincing speak of the necessity of war.
Foreign Minister Joseph Martin Fischer then cracked the resistance of the Greens and the German total, in which he threatened to resign, and specifically the "Auschwitz-crowbar" ansetzte:
"We have always said: 'No more war!' But we have always said, 'Never again Auschwitz!' "
He relativized totally inadmissible the horrors of the Holocaust, by equating the situation in the former Serbian province of Kosovo with events of the past and at the same time that trauma Deutsche whether this debt deliberately exploited and they paralyzed thus for the political debate. (More ...)