Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "World History" channel.

I think by then part of the sentiment was also that the German sports and economic success felt undeserved, too soon, they should have paid a higher price. Das Wunder von Bern didn't go down very well, also because the Germans were beating the more beautiful football of nicer nations. Actually Beckenbauer helped my father to like a German again. But he was a football fan from the East, very much near the border where exchange had been going on for years. In the West, with it's many jews before the war, a worse famine and Rotterdam flattened, the resentment was stronger. More SS and Gestapo instead of Wehrmacht there too probably. Euro 88 just had to happen, that felt like the closure we needed, there had been lots of movement before but that was a turning point.
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