I will always love the moment I enraged a naturalized U.S. citizen who came here from Germany & began going off about the Jews controlling world finance, media, etc.
I said, “Oh yes, the Nazis were actually Martians (Marsleute) who landed in Germany in 1933, took over the nation and led it into war & catastrophic defeat, then on May 7, 1945, boarded their spaceships and fled from Earth, leaving millions of dazed Germans asking, Nazis? What Nazis? I didn’t know any Nazis. Don’t know where they came from.”
To give credit where it is due, Churchill later said, “My hatred died with their surrender”.
The Holocaust began the moment Adolph Hitler opened his mouth and the German people shut theirs. I think Churchill’s comment was more an whimsical observation than hatred.
My FRiend , I’ll tell you, I’ve known many American veterans of WW2, including the last uncle of my childhood who passed away last year(he served with the 84th. Inf Div. in the ETO) and they all told me, many with anger in their voice and clenched fists how, five minutes before having just tried to kill them the Germans would throw their hands up and yell “Kamerade!’’ and start asking for cigarettes. And then start saying how much all of this wasn’t their fault, how it was all Hitlers fault and they had been lied to. Everyone of these vets including my late uncle all took great pride in saying how after hearing this bs they let’’those Kraut son’s of bitches have right in the teeth with my rifle butt’’. My late uncle’s parents were Polish so he really hated the Krauts. I remember reading a British woman journalist, can’t remember her name, who upon hearing so many times from so many Germans how much they had opposed Hitler she wondered aloud that ‘’If so many Germans had opposed Hitler then how in the world did he come to power?’’.