Germany's Reckoning with its Past
- Every bookstore in Germany has a "history table" filled with recent books dealing with the Nazi Party, including autobiographies of concentration camp survivors, biographies of historical figures, oral interviews, recently discovered letters from the WW II era, and so on.
- Germany has accepted more refugees from Syria, north Africa, and other war-torn regions than any other European nation or the U.S.
- German citizens are actively volunteering their services to orient newcomers to the country, to teach German, and to offer psychological counseling.
- Despite some opposition to refugees in the country, anti-right and anti-neo-Nazi demonstrations are frequent. Demonstrations in support of refugees are common.
- Mein Kampf was banned in Germany up until two years ago, when a new heavily annotated edition was published.
- It is illegal to peform the "Sieg Heil" Nazi salute (two Chinese tourists were arrested a few weeks ago for doing so).
- Anti-Nazi graffiti is common in public places.
- The new far-right, anti-immigrant political party RDF (Alternative for Germany) has only a very small following and is denounced by most.
- Public memorials of the millions murdered by Nazis are common, both in prominent places and in more hidden-from-view places.