Also. BWL, Der Spiegel is pretty far left--about as far left as Mudcat, probably.   Similar attitude toward Israel, very environmentalist, not nationalist in the least. Militarism is anathema.

Germany in general had a huge revulsion to Hitlerism and anything remotely conncected.

1945 is often called das Jahre Null---Year Zero--i.e.   we are starting completely over.