Wheely
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I agree with Anja and want to add that I am quite interested how Americans feel about Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Baggram etc. I also very keen about what they feel about the victims of their napalm terror bombing in Vietnam. Attacking innocent people by saying fighting against evil. USA is a warmonger nation.
As you know guys one of my hobbies is putting some links to proof what I say and here we go :
http://blindflaneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/napalm_kim_phuc.jpg
http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2444
http://www.oldgoldandblack.com/images/uploads/detainees_guantanamo.jpg |
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Anja
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How do USA feel today about Hiroshima?
Or about the slave trading
Or about the genocide on the Native Americans? |
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Zoé ♥ Lakritze
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We learn a lot about that in the school.
The TV and the cinema show something about it,too.
It's still an issue and I think we German couldn't forget it.
We now, that it's not our fault, but it's burdensome to know what had happened in our country. Now, we all are more intelligent and i think those things never could happen in the future.
In Germany you can't say you are proud to be a German, otherwise a lot off people would look at you angry... I think in other countries it's different, although they often have a terrible history too.
I'm German- sorry, for the mistakes in the text... <=o |
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Tashaa
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It is very sensitive topic in Germany and many things appealing to racism and fascism are illegal. |
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Starla_C
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Hopefully they do not shoulder any blame or shame for what their ancestors did. None of them were around during that time. That's like asking the Americans how the feel about the civil war. |
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Alwin E
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I personally feel sad about it but I'm not responsible for what happened then, and I'm proud to say that none of my ancestors was directly involved, although some of them may have supported the Nazi regime. You may think that's a crime by itself, but they were all just running with the herd, like sheep. They couldn't know that something like that really happened, or if they knew or had heard rumors, they couldn't believe it. I have seen newspapers from that time that only reported "1,200 Jews deported from [name of village]", but they never wrote, where to.
That's why freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press is such a vital thing. It should happen nowhere that those in power control the press or introduce any kind of censorship. If the German populace in those days (you know, there was no radio except the Volksempfänger, and you could be punished if you listened to the BBC) had known earlier about the concentration camps and what was really going on there, they would have ousted him just as fast as they voted him into power. |
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LaProxy
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It really is an incredibly sensitive topic. Everyone learns - especially in school - about the horrible things Hitler and the German nazis did to the minorities and to the rest of the world. I can assure you that most Germans do NOT identify themselves with what some of their ancestors did in the 1930s and 40s.
Moreover, to the 2006 soccer championships it was highly discussed whether it should be allowed to wave the German flag or whether it's a sign of "nationalism". In my opinion, this idea is quite ridiculous because every country does it - but it clearly shows that the topic is very sensitive and that Germany is afraid to still be connected with the Holocaust and everything that had to do with it.
It's a dark chapter in German history. |
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unknown
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We are not responsible for it because we didn't live at this time.
Anyway, most Germans living at this time, also didn't know about it.
You could also ask how the Americans feel about the slavery and the genocid of Native Americans! |
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Learn And Teach
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I think it was a horrible thing that happened in the past, but I do not feel responsible in any way because it happened a long long time before I was even born. I think that it shouldn't be forgotton, but constantly reminding and blaming people who are not responsible for it is something that sometimes really annoys me. I try not to care about it, because I really shouldn't have to, but being called a Nazi whenever you tell someone you're german just sucks. |
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AlwinE Koenig no balls/life
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It was a tragic thing just as bad as the genocide of Native Americans. I do not see how any one can know 100% if their ancestors were involved or not, as if they would tell them. The largest word said after WWII was ich bin keiner Nazi! All said it and most were. So hard to believe any one can prove for certain their families had to involvement if they lived and fought in the war.
Most do not use the word Pride or such their though why shouldn't they this is a whole new generation that should be proud of its accomplishments and how it has tried to rectify the past. Its far more than the US did for Natives Americans back then, now its fine, they own Casinos and get money. You cannot really compare the two anyways one is more modern the other really long ago. I said my family was not involved above but now I am not so sure! |
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NC
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Normally they do not talk about it. |
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Toast
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Like someone else said who got 15 thumbs down. they don't like to talk about it.
And someone else said they all dead.. which they are not. My Opa was in the war, he is now 90 and im going to vist him in june. I love him very much. And you know he didn't want to be a nazi but he had to or be shot. So you cant just look at Germans ans say they are all bad because of some super bad ones.
If you didn't wave your arm up to Hitler you would be shot! You really didn't have much of a say.
My Opa knew what was happening was wrong. and he tryed is best to help, he made fake pasports for Jews to help them leave and if he was found out he would have been killed so that was very brave of him.
A lot of Germans didnt even know about the all the Jews being gassed till after.
Germans don't even have a day to remember there loved ones that died how sad is that! but that's because they are to ashamed of what happened and they probably think the rest of the world would hate them if they had a day like that :( sad huh.
Is everyone who is thumbing the questions from this girl a fricken racist? why do so many people have so many thumbs down, when they are good answers. Man there is something wrong with the world. |
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