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Originally Posted by Bewolf
The problem I am talking about is the following...how do you lead a young generation of germans into a way that they can a) be proud of their country and b) do not have to refer to the Nazis to find any sort of praise.
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Same way we manage with the history of slavery and genocide against the red indians. Just have to deal with it as a part of history and move on. People will always remind you of it. It was a different time and a different people. Personally, as a young man growing up in the 60s and 70s and looking back at WWII and contrasting it with the post-war German attitudes, I always thought the Germans honorably atoned for the war guilt by accepting it. That should not last forever, and I don't think it has. But an event as massive as WWII and Nazi aggression cannot easily be shrugged off.
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Originally Posted by Platapus
- People are slowly recognizing that during the 1930's - 1940's not all German citizens were Nazis. This is coming slowly, but it is a positive change.
- People still have a hard time differentiating between the Nazi's and the German military during WWII.
- Because of this, when people think about WWII Germany, they think Nazi. That is probably not going to change.
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Exactly why dictatorships in the modern era should not be allowed. Dictatorships, even in pissant countries, can lead to things like world wars. German people did not resist the Nazi political takeover very stenuously, and many Germans supported the Nazis. When Hitler grabbed the emergency powers, the people should have acted.
I know, a very simple view on things, but it doesn't take a lot of complexity to accomplish what the Nazis did.