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I didn’t know this story, great article in the @guardian today by Pankaj Mishra about the shipwrecking German culture of memory :

“Such mentalities were partly manifest in German treatment of the Jewish displaced persons. They were still languishing in West Germany in 1952, when the Bavarian customs police launched a raid on a displaced persons camp.

theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/

The Guardian · Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’By Pankaj Mishra
Martin Rass

“It should not surprise us then that, as völkisch-authoritarian racism surged at home, Germany yet again became complicit, through its unconditional solidarity with Netanyahu, Smotrich, Gallant and Ben-Gvir, in murderous ethnonationalism. As Günter Grass wrote in his 2002 novel Crabwalk: “History, or, to be more precise, the history we Germans have repeatedly mucked up, is a clogged toilet. We flush and flush, but the shit keeps rising.”