Brian Fischsoff

“Once the Germans were war-like and mean but that couldn’t happen again.

We taught them a lesson in 1918.

And they haven’t bothered us since then.”

—Tom Lehrer

Playing an oldie but goodie in an age of more subtle tunes of political violence, more than a million of the good citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany have cast their lots in with the National Democratic Party (NDP). Getting 6.1 and 7.4 percent of the votes in state elections in Bavaria and Hesse, the NDP has stirred up some feelings of uneasiness and some fancy political science footwork as to which generation they belong to.

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