No Nazis

One of the reasons I admire Germany so much is how it has stood up to the responsibility of dealing with the country's past, particularly with any Nazis that remained.  That is happening again as tearing down the Berlin Wall created the same situation of economic despair that gave rise to Hitler.  Prior to the Wall coming down, jobs were assured in East Germany.  It wasn't much of a life but it was structured and people in East Germany understood it.  After the Wall came down, economic hardship came as people adjusted to the new freedoms.  Economic hardship is always a ripe place for despots to work and Nazism started rising again.  And, just as in the sixties, Germans are standing up to it to knock it back down again.

Immer krautrock!  Diese ist die Antwort!

(Always krautrock!  This is the answer!)

Tangerine Dream live in a performance in East Berlin in 1990.  This is a piece that helped me from going out of my mind while I was down so long after the big bike crash.