Maybe you just need to brush up on your 20th century history. Stalin starved 9 million Ukrainians to death for the "crime" of being more competent and therefore more prosperous than their neighbors. When the census takers reported the population drop, he had them shot.
No Germans were involved.
Mao's "Great Leap Forward" had farmers cooking worthless poor-quality steel in "blast furnaces" built in holes in the ground, instead of tending their crops. The resulting famine killed perhaps 50 million people.
No Germans were involved.
I would, if I were you, be far more careful to "watch out" for the 40% or so of your fellow citizens who think they're entitled to steal from the rest of us instead of working, irrespective of their ethnic heritage.
I too am of German descent. There is nothing special about the genetic makeup of Germans vs. Russians, Poles, etc. For all intents and purposes, we are the same. All I’m saying is, if the same conditions existed in the US as existed in Germany post WWI and pre WWII, you would probably get a similar result. I can see us heading into the same situation the Germans faced, when a loaf of bread cost a wheel barrow of money in the morning and two wheel barrows of money in the afternoon. When that happens, desperate people will do desperate things.
You know, I am German too, and I thank the good Lord everyday that He allowed for my ancestors to leave that Barbaric, humorless country everyday! Germans, like Mexicans, who wave their flags and see themselves as citizens of those respective countries first and foremost, rather than Americans, can freely leave, I am an American first and a German second, I am sick of hyphenated terms for Americans! The Germans were complacent in evil, no different than the Mooslims’ evil hatred of Jews!
On atrocities committed in the last century.
No Germans were involved.
It is very human of people who are aghast at some terrible example of mass killing and genocide, to centre on one group. Throughout history there are examples of this very dark side of the human condition. I have too many contrary feelings to express my inner thoughts. I was treated so nicely on another thread on another subject.
I have a very distant descent from two young people who fled the horrible massacres in France in the 1600's. They married at St Dunstans, Stepney, London. Huguenots were the French protestants who were protected by the "Edict of Nantes." The French King lifted the edict. Murder, rape and occupation of their houses took place.
Now the best thing I can do to avoid the misunderstandings that might occur is to give some facts. This deals with ancestries.
Canadian Government statistics, carefully avoided by the Canadian press have been printed on the crime rates per capita by immigrants. Herewith the lowest crime rates which include Canadian born citizens.
(1) Austrians.
(2) Germans.
(3) Indians (from Asian India.
(3) Chinese
I will not give the highest rates of immigrant to Canada which commit crimes. A peaceful day here in Great Lakes country and the fall colours starting. I will end in quoting the immortal bard Robert Burns.
"Man's inhumanity to man, makes countless thousands mourn."
In the past 2 decades, I’ve noticed an unfortunate trend,
that of denigrating anyone of German descent, including
those here as being suspectible to committing atrocities,
more than people of other backgrounds. This is not borne
out by history; atrocities, though not of the Holocaust
type, have been committed by peopl of all races and cultures,
the latter being the more operative factor. I’ve never
found anything that’s adequate as a response. This meme,
or whatever you call it, could not have been enunciated
in the first post-war decades, bc there were too many
people, veterans and others, who knew better. This comment
doesn’t satisfy me, but I wanted to post something.
Excellent reply and you didn’t even mention the Little Black Book of Communism. With 100 million killed in the 20th century you’d think we’d have learned that it isn’t genetics, but bad ideas that kill people.