Judge Judy’s advice for us oldsters is just two words, “Don’t fall.” Wobbliness will getcha.
Judge Judy’s advice for us oldsters is just two words, “Don’t fall.” Wobbliness will getcha.
Albert Speer, Sr. was alone among the top Nazis in taking moral responsibility for his actions. But he claimed to have no knowledge of the Holocaust, and only minimal knowledge of Germany’s use of slave labor.
So was he an honest man, or merely someone who tried to deflect guilt away from himself? I suspect that the latter is true.
He really outlived his ‘nice uncle’ (his description of Hitler).
Their political system was taken over by an increasingly radical group after many years of economic difficulty and dislocation. That increasingly radical group turned psychotic, but the psychosis wasn't evident to the broad mass of the public until it was too late. At that point, for many if not most it was a matter of survival, go along to get along.
Did many get swept away and caught up in the madness of the crowd at that particular moment in time? Of course they did. They're practically all dead now, though. I don't particularly like the Germany of today, either, and I suspect a major contributing factor to the abysmal behavior of modern Germans is derived from Nazi guilt. The pendulum has swung far too far in the opposite direction.
There needs to come a time when they forgive themselves, and when the rest of the world gives it a rest. It may be too late for that, too, so we'll just have to see what sort of psychotic mess comes out of that star-crossed country this time.
RIP.