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Article: It's not Weimar all over again: the strengths of German democracy.
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- Commonweal
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- May 7, 1993
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Anyone who watches the news knows the picture of Germany in the last year. Young men clamoring rowdily in the street at night. Rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails. An apartment building leaking flame from a broken window. One thug after another scurries up to hurl in his offering as neighborhood residents, some applauding, stand by. Cut to the inside of the building, where foreigners huddle in terror, flinching at the sound of breaking glass. Back outside, the thugs raise their arms in a Hitler salute.
Oh no, you think. Here the), go again.
In the here-they-go-again scenario, these skinhead thugs play the role of SA storm troops; Turks and gypsies play the ...