I firmly believe the same. Although the majority acts as like somehow Germany was a only 'victim' in World War II, when it was Hitler's Germany that started the war in Europe.
This whole holocaust thing would be so much more convenient if it just hadn't happened.
- is the typical German sentiment toward it, in my observation.
But I must qualify though; I know some Germans who are deeply grieved and remorseful for it.
I firmly believe the same. Although the majority acts as like somehow Germany was a only 'victim' in World War II, when it was Hitler's Germany that started the war in Europe.
This whole holocaust thing would be so much more convenient if it just hadn't happened.
- is the typical German sentiment toward it, in my observation.
But I must qualify though; I know some Germans who are deeply grieved and remorseful for it.
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In terms of the young Germans I have met (I have met maybe a hundred in my visits) they have been shamed to the core of their soul about their countries past. Even the sight of a Nazi uniform will turn their stomachs.
If there are Germans that think the Holocaust would be more convenient if it did not happen then they are right.
I wish it had not happened. I wish World War Two had not happened. But it did and we should commemorate those that died both in the camps and in the trenchs. For the Europeans that died and for the Americans who crossed the world to help save Europe from tyranny. I think the young German population do not have to apologise for the actions of their forefathers but they must recognse them.