Often, politicians are nothing but a loyal reflection of their milieu, their culture, their society and their times (zeitgeist and leitkultur).
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But nowhere has the argument about nationhood and a leading culture (Leitkultur) been more fiercely debated than in Germany.
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Still, every crop of serial killers mirrors and reifies the pathologies of the milieu, the depravity of the Zeitgeist, and the malignancies of the Leitkultur.