He wasn’t “jokingly minimizing” the Nazi past. Where are you coming up with this stupidity?
World War II ended 80 years ago. No German in 2025 is responsible for what happened in the past, nor should they feel shame for it. Feeling ashamed for what someone ELSE did is ridiculous. It shouldn’t be taboo to be proud to be German.
NO ONE HAS CLAIMED LIVING GERMANS ARE RESPONSIBLE.
Where do you come up with that?
National history does NOT equal shame. A German teen today is no more responsible for the Holocaust than an American kid is for the Wounded Knee massacre.
It’s weird how people who defend retaining monuments so as not to forget US history find a society that rigorously teaches its own history is somehow misguided.
(By the way, the Japanese have largely ignored or downplayed their country’s atrocities, so I guess that by you lights they are more enlightened.)
He wasn’t “jokingly minimizing” the Nazi past. Where are you coming up with this stupidity?
World War II ended 80 years ago. No German in 2025 is responsible for what happened in the past, nor should they feel shame for it. Feeling ashamed for what someone ELSE did is ridiculous. It shouldn’t be taboo to be proud to be German.
He did precisely what John Cleese did in the “Germans” episode of Fawlty Towers. If anything, it’s the English that came off in that episode as the buffoons.