Subject: Re: Germans can't face their own past and move on

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Subject: Re: Germans can't face their own past and move on

Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2008 12:01:13 +0200

On Fri, 2 May 2008 08:47:31 +0200, "Tim C." wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:59:15 +0200, Alfred Molon wrote:
>
>> In article , Martin says...
>>
>>> I worked with Germans for over 40 years. I never heard one say "it wasn't our
>>> generation". The only person, who I have ever heard regret that the Nazis lost
>>> was a Dutchman.
>>
>> Believe it or not, in 1993 I was doing an internship at Volkswagen in
>> Wolfsburg. There was a young Dutchmen who was doing an internship there
>> as well and he told me he sort of hated Germans because of WWII. Go
>> figure. He was probably 20 something and had a strong resentment against
>> the Germans.
>
>A lot of people do, whether rightly or wrongly.

It doesn't take a lot to work out why.
On Dutch TV tonight we are offered Schindler's List and the Pianist. No doubt we
will be offered the Diary of Anne Frank again before liberation day.The main
article on the front of the local newspaper is about German brothels in NL
during WWII
--

Martin

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