I didn't get what was so peculiar about Goofball's quote either. Maybe it was the percieved semantic lumping of 'German' and 'nazi' indeed.

However, nothing in Goofball's post implied he confused or even meant to equal the two. He clearly speaks of Germany during WWII, even mentioning nazi policy. To read more into it is unnecessary.

However that may be, IMO: Germany is not national-socialistic by nature. Rather, nazism was an aberration of German history. But, the reverse does hold true - that nazism was German by nature. German history was far from a 'long road to Ausschwitz'. Ausschwitz however was the result of German history.

One does not do justice to Germany to claim nazism was inevitable, and one does not do justice to history to claim nazism wasn't German.