German here, but from the diaspora. I’ve never read that propaganda kitsch and no one in my family did and now living in West Germany I can really notice the deep impact it has left on them. They don’t even realize how no one else on earth shares this view, even when on almost any other issue they routinely justify implementing it by „because Norway/Denmark/Paris/Sweden does it“.

This is in part to blame on that book, but also on the socioeconomic class that is omnipresent in our publisher‘s editing boards. As study after study has shown German journalists are 4 times as likely to vote for the Greens as the normal population.