DBWI: Why did Germania Voluntarily Repudiate Autocracy and Racism?

Why did the government of Germania voluntarily repudiate racist ideology and institute free and fair elections in 1990? For a government that seemingly was based entirely off of racial ideology and German identity, this move doesn't really make sense.

Was there some kind of massive change in German society between 1950 and 1990?

Bonus question: Would the rest of the world have found out what happened to Europe's Jews if the Germans didn't make their archives public?
 
I think the Reich (still its official name, despite being a multiparty democracy) finally realized, with the advent of modern genetics and biology, that their ideology was a bunch of bullshit :p

More seriously, I think everyone in Germany was tired of living under a one party dictatorship, and a change was in order. Voluntarily giving back some land to the few remaining Poles for a rump Poland and withdrawing from the former Soviet Union completely weren't bad moves either.

As to the murder of Jews...I think most of us knew about that already, but it was just one of those things we were sure about despite not being able to prove it.
 
I think history may bear me out on this one, but the CIA had completely penetrated the Third Reich by 1950. Hitler's intelligence services were entirely subverted, and the CIA was flat out attempting to promote liberals within the hierarchy of the government.


The odd turn in the nation's development follows two decades of these frankly odd persons emerging with far greater wealth and resources than could easily be explained. Despite rumors that the largest fortunes were either defense contractors or the slave traders, neither industrial group could legitimately claim any degree of "trade ties" to the rest of the world.


The United States, having compromised Germany's networks to the bone, followed on its success by using those resources to push its unstable politics to a more favorable outcome. While I never expected Sophie Scholl to wind up as the next German Kanzler, I suspect that she really was not "wealthy through inheritance" as is widely claimed.


I could be wildly wrong.
 
I think history may bear me out on this one, but the CIA had completely penetrated the Third Reich by 1950. Hitler's intelligence services were entirely subverted, and the CIA was flat out attempting to promote liberals within the hierarchy of the government.

Or at least the pro-democratic, non-corrupt factions. On the other hand, the Dixiecrat/Anti-Communist factions tried to do the exact opposite.
 
Sophie Scholl is a hero. I can't believe the Nobel committee never nominated her for the Nobel Peace Prize.Then again, the folks in Oslo are probably really bitter about the whole occupation mess.

As for the United States, I can't believe anti-communist ideology still has traction in the United States, especially since there are no nations on the planet short of a few podunks in Africa that are ruled by communists. The Soviet Union is long dead thanks to the massively genocidal attentions of the Germans.

Just let it go.
 
Sophie Scholl is a hero. I can't believe the Nobel committee never nominated her for the Nobel Peace Prize.Then again, the folks in Oslo are probably really bitter about the whole occupation mess.

As for the United States, I can't believe anti-communist ideology still has traction in the United States, especially since there are no nations on the planet short of a few podunks in Africa that are ruled by communists. The Soviet Union is long dead thanks to the massively genocidal attentions of the Germans.

Just let it go.

You should try the wiener schnitzel at that restaurant in St. Petersburg. Speer did an awesome job at redeveloping (actually reconstructing) the city.
 
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