[yldstrk]

I, for one, will never forgive the Germans or trust them. As far as I know, the Germans have never asked the world’s forgiveness or apologized. They still owe the civilized world, basically the Allies, bigtime.

[Sherman Logan]

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1997272_1997273_1997275,00.html

A head of government on his knees at a memorial, and billions of dollars paid in reparations.

What would you suggest the German government or people do further?

[Sherman Logan]

You are aware this is exactly the same argument used to make white Americans eternally guilty for the past sins of other white Americans against black people, aren’t you?

Also, by this argument, maybe the Jews should be held responsible for the murder of Jesus Christ.

[Leaning Right]

I, for one, will never forgive the Germans or trust them.

Every nation has a minority quite willing to do government-sponsored, sadistic, SS-like work. The Russians had their Bolsheviks, for example. It is the duty of all good people to prevent a fascist minority from taking power.

What many on the left cannot understand is that their intolerance breeds fascism.

In the past, the Germans have been both arrogant and quite willing to an accept authoritarian leader (the Kaiser, the Fuhrer). That's a bad combination. The Japanese were the same way.

Let's hope things have changed.

[Bikkuri]

They have acknowledged what they did.. They also apologized.
(Bit more complicated on the Japanese side :/)

[kearnyirish2]

“I, for one, will never forgive the Germans or trust them. As far as I know, the Germans have never asked the world’s forgiveness or apologized. They still owe the civilized world, basically the Allies, bigtime.”

You cannot forgive them if you weren’t the injured party anyway. Anyone who wants to hold that part of history against the perpetrators is fine by me; holding their grandchildren responsible for it is absurd & immoral. Any conversation about “owing” should take into account the debt the Germans incurred from WWI; it played no small role in bringing about WWII. The Allies felt they were “owed” something by Germany after WWI - how did that work out? A continent divided between fascism and communism...

[Jabba the Nutt]

You are wrong. Germany has apologized numerous times and has paid reparations in the billions, including the German Marshall Fund for the United States.

I've lived in Germany as an adult for 3 years. Their self-abasement has gone so far its unhealthy. Saying that Germany and Germans have contributed to civilization is verboten. Germany is the root of all evil and any sign of patriotism is denounced. This is sick. And it was sick when I first experienced it in 1975.