“Were you ever stationed in FRG? You are wrong about Germans coming to understand their War Crimes. You are absolutely wrong. You, could not be more wrong, ever.”
I served in the GDR and I believe that some Germans of the war generation did not understand, but they accepted. Younger generations have fully embraced their history.
Not all Germans of the war generation approved, but were unable to resist. Don’t overlook Claus von Stauffenberg, for example.
The US has not decisively won a major war since WWI, because we have sought to avoid the killing necessary to do so. Bombing civilians in Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin and other major German cities, helped us win.
Likewise bombing Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped win as well.
My father was a young Marine, who enlisted at age 17, and after 45 days on Okinawa, was seriously injured, evacuated to Honolulu, recovered and was ready for full duty when the two bombs ended the war.
Was plans and casualty estimates for invasion of the Japanese mainland predicted far more casualties, than the two bombs.
Hence Pres. Truman was a great humanitarian, and wartime leader.
It was not the War Generation, to which I referred. I was talking about the 5 generations that were taught nothing about their history of truly self-indulgent warmongering. Hitler convinced unworthy people, that they could viciously steal, murder unto genocide and commit every inhuman act, towards their fellow citizens. The youngers, you mention are not mainstream. But, if you say so- I do not believe your little/big story. The germanics and their heathens, are ill equipped, and not well rated.