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To: LibWhacker

Europe in general, and up through WWII has a long, sad record of anti-Semitism, definitely not limited or even historically (before the Nazis) primarily in Germany. As a matter of fact, one reason there were so many Jews in Germany before the Nazis is that Germany had a long record of tolerance...unlike most of the rest of Europe.

Even since the war, Germany has been the scapegoat for much of the atrocities which Austria was nearly equally culpable for, as well as Poland, Czechoslovakia, (Vichy) France, among others. And since the war, Germany has done the most, compared to all of Europe, to make amends—even though those in power now, and for a long time now, had nothing to do with the Nazi dictatorship.

The vast majority of Germans alive today are as appalled, or more, to what happened 65+ years ago, as any American or Israeli. Germany has definitely changed—and changed more than the rest of Europe for sure.


7 posted on 03/18/2008 3:11:13 PM PDT by AnalogReigns
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To: AnalogReigns

“And since the war, Germany has done the most, compared to all of Europe, to make amends”

Not in my opinion. Germany vehemently opposed the removal of Saddam Hussien and opposed democracy in Iraq (whereas Poland not only supported our efforts but provided troops). Germany supports terrorist states that are an enemy of America. They are the leading European trading partner of the terrorist regime in Tehran and oppose efforts to enact meaningful sanctions against Iran. They even cheated on their obligations to NATO by changing their rules of engagement in regards to Afganistan.


12 posted on 03/18/2008 5:24:25 PM PDT by death2tyrants
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