When Snowden&#x27;s NSA leak had just started, there was a podium discussion about it on German TV. Well, a few, but in one specifically one of the guests was a lesser german TV celebrity, known for science shows if I remember correct.
If I had to guess, I would say he was probably born in Germany, but his family immigrated. And that background is plainly visible. And that is important because of one sentence he said that practically no german with a german heritage of 80 years or more would have dared to say -- &quot;If Nazi Germany had the NSA&#x27;s surveillance capabilities, the Holocaust would have been over in a month.&quot;<p>And this is not a theoretical worry, in an interview with Gen.Alexander there was a question whether he is worried about building this technological infrastructure and its abuse potential by future potential successor entities. His reply was along the lines of &quot;Nothing will come after us.&quot; Which to a German, strikes a lot of similar chords to Nazi Germany&#x27;s eternal Reich rhetoric.