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[–] JackDark@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lithuania

Saved you a click

[–] konki@lemmy.one 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can Lithuania be considered overseas to Germany though?

[–] JackDark@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can technically get from one to the other via the Baltic Sea.

[–] RohanWillAnswer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can technically get from the US to Canada via the Atlantic, so the logic checks out.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Germany and Lithuania don't share a land border, though..

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Remind me of Prussia and how that ended.

US and Guatemala?

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 14 points 1 year ago

* nervous Polish noises *

[–] dumbass@lemy.lol 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With permission this time tho, right?

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From the capitalist ruling class of course.

If they wouldn't allow it the country would just be labelled an enemy state to be overthrown by capitalists, as had been the case here.

[–] Beinofenstrot@feddit.de -4 points 1 year ago

I think the people of lithuania are pro-base as well...

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

* Anakin's face intensifies *

[–] Arelin@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While actively funding and supporting a genocide too.

West Germany was never denazified.

Fully 77 percent of senior ministry officials in 1957 were former members of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, a higher proportion even than during the 1933-45 Third Reich, the study found.

From 1949 to 1973, 90 of the 170 leading lawyers and judges in the then-West German Justice Ministry had been members of the Nazi Party.

Of those 90 officials, 34 had been members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), Nazi Party paramilitaries who aided Hitler's rise and took part in Kristallnacht, a night of violence that is believed to have left 91 Jewish people dead.

While alot of the rest of the nazis stayed in power through NATO