As far as I am concerned if you grow up in Germany you grow up with a guilt which is forced on one.
In part I can understand this.
It goes too far.
At first Rommel was seen as a good soldier. Then they bring programms on TV trying to discredit him. At first the Wehrmacht was seen as clean, then the truth has to be shown what atrocities they performed.
Of course this is awful, terrible and should never happen again. But it is still happening.
In war terrible things happen no matter who is involved in the war.
I think it was in a book by Liddell Hart (I am not sure anymore) who wrote (if it is true don't ask me) that the French people were in part treated worse by Canadian liberaters and some other Allies than by the Germans.
It makes me sad to see how ashamed many Germans are of themselves.
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