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.)
Let me give you some background. I’m a German citizen. Germans are taught that they are collectively responsible for what happened, and should always be on their guard lest it happen again. Therefore, you rarely if ever see German flags waved or any signs of national pride. A national “shame” has permeated the culture. Therefore they let in scads of immigrants (Muslims) who shit all over their national traditions, and the Germans are too scared to speak up lest they be labeled “far-right” (GASP!!)
Elon is right on the money here. Enough is enough.