Well, it mightily frustrates my next guest, the journalist and cultural historian, Peter Watson, that there’s so little curiosity shown about the full history and psychology of such a formidable national community and people, despite obsessive interest, he suggests, in a relatively small slice of its history, the 12-year period in which the Nazi Party ruled. Why is this so? What are the factors that power this nation along so consistently to dig the depths as well as reach for the heights of human existence? It’s been starkly on display during this European debt crisis, and as our guest last week, George Friedman, wrote during the year in a special series, Germany is returning to its usual place as a great power, achieving far more peacefully than the Wehrmacht ever managed. It’s been underway of course since World War II but just not fully comprehended I don’t think. Geraldine Doogue: One of the key developments of our new century has been the re-emergence of Germany.
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