"We GAVE YOU BACK your right to not support us!"
And there's the rub as they say. As a german-born post-war immigrant to Australia it has been my experience that the older generation of germans still cannot forgive or forget that they were conquered. Now, that does not mean any or all are Hitler fans, however, as the US had the primary strength in the conflict, the US, more than the other members of the allied forces are still perceived as the enemy which bombed cities etc. Add to this that the US military were well equipped, well dressed and well fed when the german population was on starvation rations and the german army was freezing to death in Russia and you get the picture. Germans are the ones who have never 'gotten over it' - who still see themselves as victims.
Nevertheless that US money and effort rebuilt the country. Sometimes charity itself makes mortal enemies. They lost the war, they are being asked to be thankful. These are the influences still alive in germany - nothing has changed since the time I, as a child, watched as adults wrote on fences 'Yankee Go Home'
And then they would line up for American food and aid. There's no making sense of it. They lost the war and will never forgive the US for that.
"Come on, get over it!? We GAVE YOU BACK your right to not support us!"
Does "We" include the British, the French and,
most of all, the Russians?
If so, I`d agree.
If you appreciated that and weren't invertebrates you'd be supporting us now...
Last time I`ve checked, Landstuhl and Ramstein
still used to be in Germany. And our troops in
Afghanistan are not on vacation.
Hun