Wondering how they ‘paid the price.’
I do not suggest that the sons pay for the sins of the fathers, just I am uncertain concerning this price paid. It seems rather an empty comment. Is it because time has passed and most of the Nazis are now dead?
I simply do not get the point.
Well besides the real dollars in reparations they have paid out......billions IIRC....there still is some hyper shame amongst many mainstream germans for the sins of the past....
If the WW2 vets from both sides were willing to meet and shake hands and be glad they survived WW2 then that is good enough fo me.....
I didnt have to live it.....but I wont forget....
They have asked for forgiveness, repented. That is enough. Now they must protect themselves as the big dog US has decided we wont. Same for Japan. This life thing is serious business. Heads get cut off. Rules of Engagement cannot be politically acceptable AND personally deadly. That isall they are saying.
They need to make important steps now before desperation sets in and a nutcase with confidence seems like the only viable savior.
We have one of those now, because we failed to engage one another, preferring to guffaw at political correctness and the other side’s imbecillity. We were thus outclassed in converting enough voters. Should have been landslide victories with decent candidates. Your candidate reflects your willingness to engage fellow citizens in genuine discussion. We failed.....I failed miserably and am tired of it, tired enough to change my behavior.
a large part of the payment would be the near total destruction of cities, the loss of millions of the male population and the change in genetic make up resulting from the loss and occupation. Roosevelt and Churchill and Stalin systematically destroyed what was germany. Germany is not Germany of yore
The population now in control are not the sons but the grandsons and perhaps great grand sons. actually since the person making the announcement is female as is the prime minister, we should speak of grand daughters.
However rather than couch the change as a paid bill, it might be better to just state that great change in the mindset has taken place. Memory or understanding of WW II is hazy, of the interregnum economic collapse and WW I gone.
The lady’s comments are directed to a future not related to the past