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modifier@lemmy.ca 6 days agoWell and you have partition and reunification as well, which must play into it. Postwar Germany seems to have been partially defined by a series of unique and almost absurd culture shocks as Germany encountered successively different versions of itself.
I hope this discussion doesn’t offend the Germans among us. My interest is earnest and genuine, and as an American in 2024, more than simply academic.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Germany’s entire history since the fall of the Roman empire is just a series of culture shocks. East Francia, the clusterfuck of the HRE, the subsequent clusterfuck of Austria and Prussia, so on and so forth.