This piece is truly dreadful. It is generously larded with offensive stereotypes and cheap ethno-cultural generalizations, jejune psychology, and dime-store history. 

In his haste to make sweeping generalizations and uphold stereotypes about all Germans, the writer forgets that Afd only got about 12%. OOOPS. 

Vaughn also seems to conveniently forget that Germany is a country in which over 22% of residents are not born in Germany. This fact completely and utterly destroys the writer's claims about inherent German xenophobia.

Vaughn's attempts to ground current German attitudes and behavior in Prussia and the Soviet occupation is like me trying to say that Canadians love to travel because of Canada's experience in the fur trade; or saying that Canadians are anti-American because of the war of 1812. Just plain stupid.

Vaughn should maybe get away from the Starbucks in Kreuzberg where he probably wrote this swill and actually learn something about Germans and their history and culture.