It is not to be overlooked (Der Spiegel No. 46, pp 126-139, "The War Game".): The Heroic comes again, the Warlike, hard, inexorable.
After decades it carefully exorcised, inexorably expelled, and even put under punishment, it is now in demand in Germany again.
The Germans had nearly six decades, the applicable "Never again war" to their highest bid and even laid down in their constitution that they would only apply in a case of defense ever return to arms, but in the meantime, a new era was ushered in.
The new era began almost imperceptibly to and fawning. It was of "responsibility" is mentioned. The fracture 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 the war.
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer Martin then cracked the resistance of the Greens and the Germans as a whole, 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!' "
So he qualified 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 that debt deliberately exploited and paralyzed so for political debate. (more ...)
