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

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These posts reminded me

I think dan carlin hints at this is one of his really early podcasts, he basically states that he was writing an essay about the tactical superiority of the mongols and his lecturer was negating him at every turn he only realised later because although he saw it as just history, his ethnically chinese lecturer saw the mongols as murderers during that period.

He then goes on to explain that at some point SOMEONE will write a positive book on the nazis (hes playing devils advocate) the only thing holding it back is time. Maybe although many veterens have died now, they and their stories are still on living memory, maybe in another 50 or 100 years time, countries awkwardness about ww2 will change in time for pure fact. But for now maybe things such as dedicating to d day is for some stilltoo recent.

 

On the japanese front they still havent accepted blame for things which happened in korea and china, so i dont think they ultimately care (also i think their education on that part of history is a bit…skewed

And last parting bit i once had a walking tour around munich which was done by an american about the rise of nazism, he praised the german people for the efforts they done to amend for certain things and that munich  is proud that the jewish community came back and reside in their city (i even saw a protest against a right wing politician whilst there adamently opposed by many many people). But he left a parting shot saying the germans have accepted their history, but what of the countries who helped them control their countries eg: people in france were also rounded up by the french (he named some other countries too) and stated about the regiments made up from other countries who were as fanatical as the german ones. But these countries havent accepted their part and push their blame onto just germany. I found this a fascinating insight