He is right. They haven’t faced what happened, and they haven’t faced their own countries’ role in it. After all, it wasn’t just the Germans. French police rounded up French jews, Belgian police rounded up Belgian jews, Hungarian police rounded up Hungarian jews. And so on.
And in part because as he says they haven’t grieved, and they haven’t faced their own national culpability, they do not understand the genesis of modern Israel, and they miss the connection between Islam and Nazism.
Well, I’m old enough to remember all the movies of the 60s like “The Sorrow and the Pity” which documented the Holocaust from the French point of view. And who can forget the Klaus Barbie trial which ignited a fire storm of regret and denial? I would not say the French haven’t faced up to facts and according to a German friend, the Holocaust is taught in schools. It’s actually the Japs who need to own up to the horror they caused in the 30s and 40s.
they do not understand the genesis of modern Israel, and they miss the connection between Islam and Nazism.
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And also because they dropped Christianity they lost their historical memory and any idea of who they are.
much the same is happening to the USA now.