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I am German on my fathers side, and wondered why at the age of almost 60, I will still, at times, catch myself saying, "I am a stubborn, authoritative person, the only thing wrong with that is I am always right!" egad, where did that come from? looks like alot of Germans had the same idea over there back then, is this kind of false pride in our genes or something? The Pope feels incriminated, a doer of this evil because he is German and was in the Youth movement then for awhile, he is human, and did not have on his mind what people wanted to hear from him at that time, he had human , internal feelings, wound up over decades. If you are not German you don't know what I mean, sorry, but I am convinced that the Huns, Saxons, Vandals and other ancient tribes , left some of their barbarism in generations to follow, through the dna.

I am German through my mother's side. My father's side was Romanian Jewish. The way I see it, is we're all responsible for our own behavior. Our parents' past does not follow us nor do our actions as children reflect upon our parents. The question of what kind of life a person leads is a matter of individual choice - and at that, a freely willed choice.

I have a tiny bit of German in me but not much to really speak of. Though the acts of Nazi Germany during the war were horrific (that is an understatement) there was nothing unique about the Germans that made them do it. Since then many races and nations have done horrible appalling things like the former soviet union, several African nations, several Balkan nations, several Latin American nations, and even some whack jobs here in the states.

And I too am a stubborn son of a gun at times and can be quite the control freak, however I doubt you or me has committed a genocide recently. What our parents and our ancestors have done dose not reflect on us or make us guilty of there crimes. My ancestors may or may not of owned slaves, but if they did that dose not make me guilty nor dose it make me want to own a slave. I have to find my own path in life and make my own decisions and live with my own failures and successes as do my eventual children. Society can not advance if the entire world is self conscious and forever trying to pay off a debt that is not there's to begin with when they should be advancing society and improving it for the next generation.