MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
Absolutely completely and totally agree.
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I do not believe that the faults my father or grandfather etc is mine, nor do i believe this guilt should be carried over to other generations. I will chear the german football team as long as the do not play holland.
However history must be written true. That is what makes it science. Even when the history is very ugly.
If I must say Yes or No, it's Yes. Chinese did the same in the history.So it is only the amount of victims credited to the atrocities that is in dispute, not the fact that they happened?
Agree. If the same things were said in Germany, the Reichstag would be stormed again.I also feel there is entirely too much denial and revisionism in post-war Japan
When I was a kid, adults used to say "If I had a chance to meet a German, I would say 'Let's do it again together but without Italians next time'."
Oh, too late for me to know that. All adults had gone.I think the German kid would have said the same.
When I was a kid, adults used to say "If I had a chance to meet a German, I would say 'Let's do it again together but without Italians next time'."
When I met a German merchant in Korea, I talked him this story and asked "What if I asked you same?". He said "No more but I don't like Americans."
My experience of old days.
I once worked with a nice German lady. She had married a GI and moved to the States.When I was a kid, adults used to say "If I had a chance to meet a German, I would say 'Let's do it again together but without Italians next time'."
When I met a German merchant in Korea, I talked him this story and asked "What if I asked you same?". He said "No more but I don't like Americans."
My experience of old days.
Thanks everyone for many good posts.
I clearly, or clearler, understand the difference between Germany and Japan about not only culture but geopolitics.
80-year would be enough for anyone to say "We are not so ugly as you have defined", isn't it?
My Taiwanese friend once said "Continental communists are trying to change people's human nature to control but, once changed, they are not humans anymore."
We are humans.
This may be a good opportunity to ask, Chris.Shinpachi, my friend, no one places any blame on your countries post war generations, or the great country of Japan that has risen from the ashes. I just don't care for the people trying to re-write, sugar coat, or erase the history as it happened. How will future generations learn from it?
That goes for all places. There are people in my country that want to pretend history did not happen. To just erase it.
There is not a nation that has not had its own terrible and dark period in its history. Not a single one. Mine included, both the United States and Germany (obviously).
This may be a good opportunity to ask, Chris.
1. What if Nazi won the war.
2. What if the US lost the war.
Would the people regret what they did?