Agreed about active prevention, I think that’s why I’m so surprised and saddened Germany hasn’t done much better at it. There were active legal and education strategies put in place and I wanted to believe it could support sufficient systemic change.

It pretty much looked like that systemic change had been made in west germany, then the reunification came and changed everything since it turned out that in the GDR, fascism had been very well preserved, especially in the "liberated" working class. Soon after the german reunification the first migrants asylum home for was burned by neonazis and since then there has been neonazi terror.

At 12.6% of the vote for AfD from last election though, it seems to be nowhere near sufficient. And that terrifies me.

If that scares you don´t check up on the newer polls T_T

A lot of the education and events were about remembering the past, I think it should have been more about causes and prevention but that would have hurt more current political interests.

I mean we did do, and still do, better than many other states in europe. We have had (sometimes extremly) right wing governments in the eastern parts of europe for a long-ish time, see hungary, austria, poland, france struggling with keeping LePene's party from power, italy having a premier that follows the teachings of the original fascist Mussolini. The AfD has been a bad sign but they were far from getting any real power besides making us look stupid for the last ten years. Now for the last year they are actually starting to take burocratic positions with political significance.

These next few months and years might be very influencial on how we develop as a country. We will have a few elections for the state governments and the federal government will be elected in two years.