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Saying that all german soldiers were fighting for the political belif of the NS party, or that all confederate soldiers were fighting for slavery is no diffrent than saying that all US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are republicans who voted for and fully belive in George Bush.
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Absolutely. I also think that Neal got it all wrong with bringing the Confederate soldiers into the discussion. Because most people in the North didnt give a **** about the slaves. Freeing the slaves was just a shrewd move by Lincoln, it at the same time hit the South at his most vulnerable spot, and raised the political price of foreign intervention. Saying that the South was evil because it was a slave country is pure hippocrisy, because the only difference was that they couldnt do away with it as easily and quickly as the North, which the North used in its favour.
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Furthermore, as ive said before, the victor writes the history books, and Germany and the german people have truly been shat on by the world since ww2.?
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Do you really think so? I think they were treated pretty lenient, at least the ones in the western part.
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The germans of today are still paying tribute to israel for something that their ancestors did.?
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I think thats a ok because I have some genuine feeling of shame though I was born in the 1970s. We rather have mixed feelings wether its right to support the current policies of the state of Israel, as "we have the right to treating Arabs like animals because they happen to live in the land of our forefathers". I also refuse to ever travel to Israel because I know I would be treated with extreme injustice as well.
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If my father murders someone, should i go to prison because of what he did?
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Absolutely no. But it would be the right thing to do if you help his family and make it clear that you're sorry for the murder and that it won't happen again.