Teh Nazis!

Kay, folks, old topics, new questions.

Nearly 65 years have passed since world war 2 came to an end. A lot has changed since then. Society in western worlds alltogether have changed dramatically. Communism broke down, Germany and all of Europe got reunited, NATOs borders expanded to the east and the EU is growing to be a highly critizised, but economically potent power. The new contestants of the world are the US, the EU, China and India, it looks like the whole far east will grow to be a whole new center of civilisation, similiar to former times. East vs. West will grow to whole new dimensions.

But the more the world changes, and the more we move away from these dark times, the more ppl talk about the Nazis. Not just in Germany, where this has been an old topic, but abroad as well. Wherever you look, when having discussions, Nazis are never that far away. be it documnetaries running on TV 24/7, highlighting every single little aspect of the Nazis, in discussions and debates, no matter the topic, you bet someone sooner or later pulls the Nazi club. Tourists, especially US and british tourists coming here are looking for remants of WW2, they are not interested in the more then 2000 years of history that happend on these lands or the cultural offerings today at all.

The german army especially appears to be highly fascinating to ppl all around. German technology, german profession, all more or less contributed to the Nazis, despite their basics having been developed much sooner. Outside Germany the Waffen SS is highly praised on a regular basis.

The inability or lack of differentation between Nazis and the Germans in general have a couple very negative effects. I am talking about my own country here and it's youth.
After decades of school indoctrination nazis=germans=bad, coupled with the fact that even today, after all these years of apologies, reperations and humility there are still a lot of countries using the Nazi comparisons to subdue german national interests within the EU and abroad on both a political and a private level, ppl here got tired of the same blames all around. Whenever I talk to folks under 30, and even more so under 20 (I am often contacting people commenting on youtube, just to find out what made them post their entries), you seriously notice they "want" to be proud of their country, but feel they can't be, despite high improvements in this regard over the last couple years. The last highpoint of Germany in their eyes, and proven by all those TV shows and comments on youtube videos, was the reign of the Nazis. And no matter what, that curse will still follow them, so why not just live up to the reputation, as it obviously does not go away anyways? Especially eastern Europe makes sure to remind us of that since the wall came down, coming late to the european party having to catch up on what they missed the last 50 years.

Since the financial crisis hit bottom here, there once again is a feeling of world betrayal, conspiracies to bring down the german economy by, guess, the wallstreet and all the prejudices concerning the involvement of jews in this. This is not a mass phenomenon, but there certainly is a raise in such perceptions in certain circles of society.

Al in all I consider this a problem. A big one. I love this country, I got to live with the responsebility burdened upon the following generations by that special past, but seriously, it is hard to uphold principles when everybody makes the connection that germans and Nazis are all the same.

How to deal with such a development?