Charlie Hayek Intro

Q:
What is responsible for the conflict between Germany and other counties, as Hayek said?
German people or their thoughts?

A:
"We shall never be successful in our dealings with the Germans until we understand the character and the growth of the indeas which now govern them. The theory which is once again put forth, that the Germans as such are inherently vicious, is hardly tenable and not very creditable to those who hold it. (Page 9)
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"Mere hatred of everything German instead of the particular ideas which now dominate the German is, moreover, very dangerous, because it blinds those who indulge in it against a real threat. (Page 10)
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"I know that many of my Anglo-Saxon friends have sometimes been shocked by the semi-Fascist views they would occasionally hear expressed by German refugees, whose genuinely socialist convictions could not be doubted. But while these observers put this down to the others' being Germans, the true explanation is that they were socialists whose experience had carried them several stages beyond that yet reached by socialist in England and America." (Page 11)