Very good explanation of the German situation there, Wolfgang.

My name "George" has suffered a similar fate to yours...it used to be very common until the 1960's. Now virtually no one names their son George, so if you meet a George he is likely to be over 50 years old.

Too bad. It's a good name, and so is Wolfgang.

One thing that has always bugged me, since I like to build models of WWII airplanes, is that most of the model companies are afraid to provide the small swastika marking that goes on the tail, lest they offend someone. This seems sad, because after all one is just trying to build an accurate looking model of a historical aircraft, not promoting Naziism. I look forward to the day when people put this stuff behind them and stop worrying about it so much.

We have bigger threats to our security from mainstream political movements, as you suggest, than from little groups of neo-Nazis. The mainstream can hide behind its bland exterior of normality and sanction very damaging things and get away with it.

- LH