@Stravinsk
With all due respect.... I have relatives and friends in Germany, I have ancestors who served in the German military during both world wars; a great uncle (great, great?) who was an officer in the submarine corps during WW2 and died there. I've been to Germany 3 times. And I'm proud of my German (and my English and Danish) roots.
But I can tell you: The VAST, VAST, VAST majority of Germans loudly and boldly repudiate that whole chapter of their history. They are
horrified by the holocaust (they have opened some concentration camps to the public as documentation and proof of the horrors). And they admit that Hitler was freely elected and that Germans tragically "looked the other way" at things like Crystal Night and the arrest of Jews, etc. Even supported it. In my experience, Germans are MORE critical of this whole chapter than what you find in England or Denmark or here in the States. AND they desire strongly to learn from it... and not repeat it. IF ANYTHING, my personal feeling is that Germans need to embrace forgiveness (and many in my generation are).
These attempts by a tiny few to promote LIES about this only make matters worse. Lies such as it was the Russians who killed those millions of Jews (gypsies, homosexuals, Seven Day Adventists, etc)... lies like that; they are repulsive to Germans. And to those who esteem truth. Rather than deny the truth.... rather than replace history with lies.... we should follow the example of the Germans and LEARN, so that this horrible, horrible chapter is not repeated in any form - in Germany or anywhere else.
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