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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey
You can't blame the German people now for something that happened 70 years ago. That is just ludicrous. Blowing up the oil tanker was a bit extreme in these conditions. It's ridiculous to compare it to the Holocaust though - something that the Germans are very embarrassed about to this day.
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I think I'll line up with Royboy on this one (the guy who's going to owe me forty bucks at the end of the season) ... seventy years is not nearly long enough for memories to fade. Tens of millions killed because of the Germans; remember, they started two world wars, what the hell, was one not enough? .... and I don't buy into the idea that there were only about a dozen Nazis, but they worked real hard ... they were in it almost to a man, all of them. There was no shortage of volunteers for even the dirtiest jobs, like dragging off children and the elderly to the ovens ... and does no one look at history and notice how weak and pathetic the opposition to the Nazis really was? Kriegslustig .... it's probably still there if you scratch the surface. I remember a comment from de Gaulle: when he heard that the German army had switched to rubber soled boots, he said "Ah, next time, we won't hear them coming."
The twentieth century was a bloodstained time. And it is the fault of the Germans.