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[quote=Anonymous]While luckily the discussion in this threat seems to have come to an standstill, I just spent my time reading all 24 pages and I still can't believe what some people manage to write down. Some opinions (read: some, not all. At least in between there is hope!) here are nothing, but appalling. So I can't help myself and have to reply.

It's funny how everyone has their opinion on this topic, on the forefront people who are neither Jewish, nor German. It's funny how people honestly post that Germans are not decent, that they would never trust Germans and so on. That Germans are evil by nature. Do you even understand that opinions like that are not any different from certain opinions held and spread back by the Nazis? Stereotypes against members of a religion/ethnicity/citizenship? Saying they all have the same bad trait! That's racism right there, but oh when it comes to the Germans it's ok to have such a view. I have news for you: No it's not.

I'm so tired of people like those. I'm German, born 60 years after WW2 ended, I have been living overseas for a long time. I understand that there are holocaust survivors and their families who resent Germans and Nazi-Germany for what they did back then. And I can relate to their feeling, I completely understand. "Funny" enough though, most of them do not resent modern day Germans. Because I hope that they know that it would just be history repeating itself. 
And I too do not buy products from companies that operate in an unethical way (which is pretty difficult to do... keeps you from buying lots of stuff).

I live in a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood, I work for an Israeli company and not once have I had a bad encounter here on the ground that I am German. I have lovely rapport with both younger and older people (both holocaust survivors and their families and people that fled from Germany and Eastern Europe) from this community, who know about my background. We talk about places back home we have both seen, we cherish common recipes etc.

It's people who are neither Jewish nor German that have given me a hard time over the years. People of all kinds of different descent calling me a Nazi (believe me, it's even worse when both you and your partner are tall, blonde and blue-eyed). If you confront them about it, they mostly turn out to be uneducated idiots that have nothing in their live, but their own ignorance. They are so stupid and ignorant that they don't even see what they're doing behaving like this. All they know about Germans and Germany they have learned from stupid movies hailing from Hollywood. Way to go! All German Young Adults learned about Jews during the Nazi-regime came from books and movies too, and look what happened...

The other day I was on a flight from Singapore to Australia and while waiting for the restrooms, this oldish Australian guy tries to talk to me. No worries, I don't mind a friendly conversation. After a friendly exchange for like 3 minutes, he recognises my underlying accent (often hard to pin point for others, as I have a mixture of American and Australian English in there as well). He feels its a funny idea to go Heil H. on me, I let him know that I don't appreciate those comments. He turns really angry, calls me a Nazi b*tch, comes with all kinds of racist crap onto me, and on telling him to back off, he spits on me. Way to go, mate! I tell him to go f himself and leave. Later on I hear him a couple of rows behind me talking to his seat neighbour about how he lives in the Philippines, where he enjoys those 'dirty yellow pussies', because 'those Asians are stupid monkeys'... WTF?!

Yes, what happened back then was horrible, never to repeat again. And yes, the world will probably keep reminding us Germans over and over again. Not that we do not keep reminding ourselves to a paranoid degree. At first my partner refused to buy at the local Jewish bakery, because he did not want to insult anyone should they find out that he is originally German. Is this what you want from us, world? I hope not!

But those, who were not involved, should seriously shut up about us. And as some suggested start with their own corpses in their backyard. No, you cannot compare crime, and yes, the Nazis were pretty organized at it, but still people run around calling us Nazis, but - as someone pointed out - turn defensive once you tell them about their nations history. Which, they then conclude, cannot be compared and certainly was not that bad, only done by a few etc (Given that they even know all the facts like us Germans do regarding the holocaust). Go figure. And those not involved with no clue on modern Germany should also think about the fact that in Germany Kids are ever since educated in very much detail about what happened (I remember that we probably spend a total of 2 years in history class talking about WW2), that Germany had to pay for what it did and still does pay for it, that Germany is pretty harsh on racists these days. Something I have not seen in other countries I have lived in.

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