It never ceases to disappoint me, that Germans have a complete lack of an ability to appreciate the comedic potential of Hitler and the Nazis like we Brits do.

The level of self imposed guilt and repression is no way to deal with any traumatic past event, whether it be on a personal level or on a societal level. Whilst most Germans will tell you that this is a good thing because it ensures that such a movement can never happen again in Germany, I suspect the opposite may more likely be the case. Somewhere buried deep in the German psyche, is a knowledge that the eruption of the Nazi movement into mainstream German life happened for a reason, and so long as this cannot be acknowledged and the spiritual scars truly healed, then this conflict within the individual and collective unconscious will seek to resolve itself and will knock persistently against the doors of the conscious mind, perhaps one day breaking out and overcompensating into a re-embracement of much of the emotional and mental expression that was embodied in the Nazi ideology. This might especially be the case should the German economy suffer in the same way that the southern Med countries economies are going to suffer which will erode the material glue which is presently all that holds Western civilisation together.