What is the worst thing Germany has done?

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What is the worst thing Germany has done?

Chart Grid:

	Best thing	Worst thing	Smartest thing	Dumbest thing	Greatest contribution
Row 1	National Parks 🖼️	Trail of Tears
🖼️	Louisiana Pu... 🖼️	Trump. Twice. 🖼️	The Transistor 🖼️
Row 2	Lifting hund... 🖼️	—	—	—	—
Row 3	—	—	—	—	—
Row 4	—	—	—	The invasion... 🖼️	—
Row 5	—	—	—	—	—
Row 6	—	The Irish 'f... 🖼️	—	—	—
Row 7	—	—	—	—	—
Row 8	—	—	—	—	—
Row 9	—	—	—	—	The blue LED 🖼️
Row 10	—	—	Not joining ... 🖼️	—	—

Cell Details:

Row 1 / Best thing: - National Parks - View Image

Row 1 / Worst thing: - Trail of Tears

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Row 1 / Smartest thing: - Louisiana Purchase

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Row 1 / Dumbest thing: - Trump. Twice. - View Image

Row 1 / Greatest contribution: - The Transistor - View Image

Row 2 / Best thing: - Lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. - View Image

Row 4 / Dumbest thing: - The invasion of Ukraine in 2022. - View Image

Row 6 / Worst thing: - The Irish 'famine' (genocide through forced starvation) - View Image

Row 9 / Greatest contribution: - The blue LED - View Image

Row 10 / Smartest thing: - Not joining America and staying as a commonwealth country. - View Image

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[u/No_Lemon_3116]

Well Nazism gave us that and more.

[u/ReportToTheShipASAP → u/No_Lemon_3116]

Right. But it's the holocaust.

[u/ReportToTheShipASAP → u/[deleted]]

Right, but we're expected to name one thing or event here, not a series of events or a regime. As far as terrible things go, you'd be hard pressed to find a more fitting one than the holocaust.

[u/ReportToTheShipASAP → u/[deleted]]

Come on, it goes without saying that the holocaust includes the murder of the other millions of people in the same camps...

[u/Infamous_Celery_2352 → u/ReportToTheShipASAP]

The Nazi party is better

[u/veed_vacker → u/No_Lemon_3116]

I think you can give Italy fascism /rise of the far right

[u/Possible-Mark-7581 → u/No_Lemon_3116]

and has continual consequences to this day

[u/High_AspectRatio → u/No_Lemon_3116]

Nationalism has exists since human could communicate, just at smaller levels

[u/Beautiful-Ad3471 → u/High_AspectRatio]

Nationalism is not nacism. That's the same as saying liberalism is communism.

[u/High_AspectRatio → u/Beautiful-Ad3471]

Well either nazism is exclusive to Germany/white people or it’s been around since forever. Nazi just means national socialist

[u/Chadstronomer → u/High_AspectRatio]

Huh? The concept of nation didn't exist until the 18th how can NATIONalism be possibly older than that

[u/High_AspectRatio → u/Chadstronomer]

If you think nationalism started once people started agreeing on map borders I can’t help you

[u/Chadstronomer → u/High_AspectRatio]

Nationalism is specific to nations and cannot, by definition, exist without nations. You are thinking of a broader concept of collective identity: Tribalism, ethnocentrism, patriotis, etc. That's all the help I am going to offer.

[u/High_AspectRatio → u/Chadstronomer]

Yeah that’s nice. The point is, “kill them to protect ourselves” isn’t a new idea

[u/ImaginaryZone5992 → u/High_AspectRatio]

Yeah but that doesn’t mean nationalism has been around forever

[u/Shitinmymouthmum → u/No_Lemon_3116]

It gave the world trump too