[setanta]

To really get behind the question you're posing you'd have to study the national psyche that prevailed during WWII and, more importantly, the way it's affected the Germany of today. Bruises like that don't heal very quickly. Sure I only have to look at home to see the repercussions that systematic abuse, albeit on a lessor scale, has had on my country, with the Catholic Churches carry on over decades with regard to our children.