@Jazz:
FinsterniS, ya are being a little rough on yourself sir. You keep saying that “we” are aware of what “we” did. I can’t speak for everyone else but I hold no malice for your generation of Germans. The quarrel was with the WWII generation. And I to a point, could respect the average German infantryman.
Yup, you are not part of that “we”.
We hold special responsibility for never letting it happen again. That is one of the reasons, why you find an interesting situation in germany, wrt Israel: we know we have to be careful, because of our history, in critizing them, but we clearly see that there is a government fighting a bloody civil war against ppl that it does not consider full citizens.
And to a point: i can’t respect german soldiers in WWII, not as a rule of thumb anyway, and not after i have talked to a handful of old ones ….
the rather stupid cold war was the best that could happen to them!