Reply To: Remembering D-Day and the difficulty of being a German

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@mecha82 politics are part of this … whether we like it or not.

The simple fact as to wether or not to include German politicians in any WW2 related event is still a sensitive subject to a lot of people, especially the older generations who have had to deal with the immediate effects of the war.

I’d say it is about time we included Germany, because it’s only their ancestors who did bad things during the war.
And to have Merkel present is a great step forward.
It sucks that the news reporters had to make such a weird and awkard caption, but at the same time it would have been weirder to have her excluded from that moment just so that we could have a nice historically accurate picture of the Allies.

And no matter how much we may dislike the likes of Trump or Putin … their ancestors were our allies and as such they deserve to be included.

If we were to exclude people/politicians based on our current politics and personal dislike we’d set the scene for the sequel.
I’d even argue that it was this sort of thing that allowed Hitler to gain power.

Forgive, but do not forget.

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I wonder how our Japanese friends deal with this.