Why do Germans want to be recognized as an Eastern European country so much?

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Not to Polish people, pic related is a politican from the biggest party in Germany right now. There are dozens of examples of AfD politicians using dog whistles to a point where I'm convinced they're trying to rehabilitate the nazis in the eyes of the German public. Germans never change, they held racist supremacist beliefs for hundreds of years toward Slavs, and they are slowly reverting to that

what do Germans think about their cultural shift to the west and cultural impoverishment it entailed? was getting aligned with the west the greatest tragedy that happened to Germany after 1945?