I don’t think the West has forgotten it. Are you asking for reparations?
These people fought valiantly, God Bless Them.
The Nazis did similar to other peoples.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane
“The village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi occupied France was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company. A new village was built after the war on a nearby site, but on the orders of the then French president, Charles de Gaulle, the original has been maintained as a permanent memorial and museum.”
Not only did the West forget, they forgot fast.
In 1947 Nazi General Kurt Student was convicted of war crimes related to Crete, and was sentenced to only 5 years imprisonment. He was released in 1948, so he didn’t even have to serve the 5 years.
Pathetic.
The same reason they forgot what Muslim occupation brings.
We should not forget, but the West should be more concerned about the Islamists who are carrying out very similar massacres this very day.
I don’t know. What I do know is these Bastards who did it probably lived out their lives back in Germany with no retribution.
Lot of people here think it’s funny that the Leftist prime minister of Greece now demands reparations. Anyone who knows what the Nazi’s did in Greece and later the Communists - who only got in because they were anti-Nazi - cannot forgive and forget.
To go into a village where people had lived peacefully for thousands of years and massacre them is a crime that has no mitigating circumstance. You can’t say “well that’s war”. Germans and Germany were the aggressors and those blond brats had been told the villagers were Untermenschen so it was OK to kill them.
For what they did the Germans could work 1000 years for everyone else in Europe and not have paid back their debt.
THAT is the 1000 year Reich the SOBs should have: the penalty Reich, where they work for all the people they victimized.
“Why has the West forgotten what the Germans did?”
Who could possibly forget when we’re reminded of it every day on TV, in films, online, in print, etc.?
The entire Czech village of Lidice was given a similar treatment by the Nazi bastards after the 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. After shooting all the men and shipping most of the women to camps, they dynamited, burned and bulldozed the town to the ground.
It is simply human nature.
I saw a program on “The History Channel” about WWI. One of the battles was at some place I had never heard of. After the battle, a small memorial was placed there which read something like this: “America Will Never Forget What You Did Here”, speaking of the bravery of the American soldiers.
I thought to myself, America has already forgotten.
So terrible. So sad.