“If the war is lost,” he told Speer, “the nation will also perish…. It will be better to destroy these things ourselves because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one.”

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Something here about the human desire to destroy; seems to be an instinct that there is a better thing out there to replace the current iteration; time has given us knowledge and reflection to improve the current state, so out with the old, and in with the better new.

Our current age shows us the sinusoidal nature of these things. The new generation is jealous of the current state; they can’t copy or improve things, so the current must be destroyed to quit reminding them of their failings.

Merkel’s East German heritage is straight from Adolph.