Nearly every German we have met excuses the rape of Czechoslovakia because its existence was a menace to Germany who must have ‘security’. They are so living in the grievances of the past twenty years that they ignore the sufferings of other nations. You simply can’t get them to look at things from a European viewpoint. They are really suffering from a resentment and inferiority complex. As one hardminded German said to me ‘my nation is at the moment mentally ill, they can’t see straight’.
