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Originally Posted by B.T.
Normally I do not participate on threads like this. Why? I'm German. Whenever you talk about such things, you're dancing on thin ice, if you're German. Some "wise guy" usually mentiones the war crimes of the Nazis, and that's the end to a lot of discussions.
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This attitude always annoys me. Sure the Nazis commited many, many warcrimes, yet the war ended 67 years ago! People living in Gerany today had nothing to do with it and are now welcomed members of westerrn society with an honourable and skilled military that has assisted the UN and NATO in conflicts across the world. The RAF and Luftwaffe flew together over the skies of the the former Yugoslavia in missions to save civilians.
Also Germany was not alone in the war crime's business, Russians raped and murdered their way across Europe to Berlin, my own country was guilty of turning German cities into burned out necropoli with the specific intention of killing civilians.
None of this means that a German ddoes not have the right to speak his mind on a topic regarding inhumane acts commited in modern times, or any time for that matter. It's time folks stopped putting an entire guilt trip on a nation for actons commited 60 years ago. The same goes with the Americans and slavery, the British and colonialism and all the other bullshit that gets dredged up in internet flame wars.