[wingman1]

"Yes, he's had plenty of time to reflect. Makes a big difference!"

I don't think it took him very long. Defeat has a way of making one refect.

Each time I have been to Germany, I have met men of that generation who have taken it upon themselves to offer an apology for their "history".

[Bogie]

Yes, me too. But, there was a lot mere than a simple military defeat involved in the reflection. If you get a chance read some of the Nobel Prize author Heinrich Boll.He deals with how people can let their minds be controlled by a sort of "group think" which, of course, in his case, was the Nazi leadership.