Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
Germans are probably the best record keepers in history.
I wouldn't condemn their whole history and civilization for the Third Reich, because this movement, with a heaping helping of traditional stupidity, grew out of dissatisfaction with their treatment, and resulting social conditions, after World War One. The seeds of the insanity can be traced back to Martin Luther and the Reformation, and the philosophies that grew out of it. Professor Nietzsche (below) is often mistakenly blamed for, or associated with, Nazism, and anti-Semitism. Nothing could be further from the truth. He hated where he saw Germany headed - and moved to Switzerland. Of course, he was long dead even before WWI.