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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't read all 19 pages of this thread.  Will say that my father was a German Jew.  Fled to Belgium and then to the United States as the Nazis invaded Europe.  Three of his uncles were murdered, seemingly randomly, by the SS while on a train to Berlin.  Several other relatives in camps who died.  Family business and property taken by the Nazis.  Misery all around.

Do I blame all Germans?  No.  But there wa a generation of Germans and other Europeans who were alive and complicit in the extermination of millions of Jews and others who did not conform to Nazi rule.  It's hard to get past that, regardless of what was at stake for them.  Sorry, but you watched your neighbors carted off to camps, saw them slaughtered in the streets, revealed their hiding places, informed the Nazis of their locations, etc.  I don't have a lot of faith in a society who watched as that unfolded and did nothing, for the most part (though there were notable exceptions and heroic acts).

So yes, I'm very skeptical of that older generation of Germans.  [/quote]

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