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Um, not sure what the point is of that article in this thread. Okay, so Germans today, the vast majority of were not alive in WWII, are tired of apologizing for the actions of their grandparents and great-grandparents. Gee, they're evil. Perhaps alluding to themselves as victims of WWII is a stretch (a big stretch), but how long should they carry the burden of guilt? How many generations?
Wait! They don't like Americans! Y'know what? They didn't like Americans when I lived there from 73-77 and again from 83-87. Hell, the first time I lived there German anti-American terrorists shot at my schoolbus with automatic weapons! They blew up the American high school near my house as well. We have occupied their country for 60 years now. No matter how friendly an occupation it is, no matter how good it has been for the German people, it is still an occupation. No one likes occupation forces in their country.
If you want to believe that every last soldier was in on the Concentration Camps, it's your belief. I've lived there. Call me an optimist, but I did not see some inherent deepset evil in the German character that would accept such darkness on a broad scale. I disbelieve. I think the majority of people, civilian and military, had no real idea. They may have figured it out if they looked closely, but it didn't pay to look too closely. The Nazis were psycho evil, no argument, but you are saying that the whole frikken population of Germany was in cahoots with and in agreement with that psychotic evil. I refuse to paint an entire nation with such a broad brush, especially when I've lived there and seen it first-hand.
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