Perhaps the Bavarian media are continuing
in the tradition established by Franz-Josef Strauss, when it was said Bavaria had its own foreign policy (as distinct from the Federal Republic, not from Washington, or Georgetown).
Strauss was one of the politicians on the Lockheed payroll, Munich was home to Radio Free Europe (CIA financed),and just outside is Pullach, headquarters of the ex-Nazi Gehlen Org which became West Germany's secret service, BND. This secret service had its tentacles extending through old Nazis in Spain and Latin America as well as the Arab countries, but it became a close collaborator with Mossad. Who cares what they sing in the beer halls, if they are people to do business with.
Charlie Pottins | Homepage | 03.11.08 - 5:20 pm | #

I'm surprised the Ambassador didn't call them, "good Germans," or would that have hit a little too close to home? (The proverbial "good Germans" either ignored or downplayed the Holocaust during Nazism out of patriotism.)

Interestingly, Bavaria was so Right Wing that it was free of the anti-immigrant riots that swept Germany in the 1990s. The reason was that the public had such a horror of disorder that anyone who tried it would have quickly learned why the Bavarian police wore hobnailed boots.
Montag | 03.11.08 - 6:33 pm | #