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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey
Hating a nation of people for something that happened 70 years a go is just narrow minded. The people in the German army now certainly were not involved in the henious crimes of Nazi Germany.
The Nazis were a vile set of people, and no one is disputing that - but, for us to move on from it, we have to move on from something that involves people that are mainly dead now.
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I guess we will agree to differ. But to say the "Nazis were a vile set of people" is to set the Nazis apart from the rest of the Germans, who were, no doubt, misled and coerced. Unfortunately, that is not how it was. A good read on this subject is "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust" by Daniel Goldhagen. And it is worthwhile to remember that millions who are "mainly dead now" were killed by the Germans.
Rather than forgive and forget, I prefer the attitude of Charles Hazlitt Upham, VC & Bar, 2nd. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who, until his death in 1994 would not even allow a VW to drive on his land.