Germans demand apology for allied bombing raids

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I guess he's back to chewing backer then

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[cheddar cheese]

Originally Posted by Nonskimmer

And the third instalment will surely blow us all away!

I hear its going to have a Russian dictator - dorry I mean director

[rebel8303]

The Germans surely know about what happened in WWII. If they didn't why then someone could visit a death camp today? My parents did. It is very difficult to hide it from them anymore.
I also think that this is German history now and it would be a shame if they hide such things in german schools.

WWIII is not gonna be as funny as you think guys! Most of the times in a trilogy the third part sucks.

Originally Posted by rebel8303

The Germans surely know about what happened in WWII. If they didn't why then someone could visit a death camp today? My parents did. It is very difficult to hide it from them anymore.
I also think that this is German history now and it would be a shame if they hide such things in german schools.

All I can tell you is that most German's whome I've spoken with, who are post-WWII generation, know little of the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime. And further, surveys of 1st year college students indicate almost a complete lack of such knowlege.

Just because the camps are there does not mean they are visited by most Germans. It should be manditory at about the 11th grade (16 years old) that every German student visit a concentration camp memorial sight.

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Lunatic

[cheddar cheese]

WWIII is not gonna be as funny as you think guys! Most of the times in a trilogy the third part sucks.

Thats what they said about the 2nd one, but no it was incredible: Bigger, badder, longer and uncut!

[the lancaster kicks ass]

[Nonskimmer]

Originally Posted by RG_Lunatic

All I can tell you is that most German's whome I've spoken with, who are post-WWII generation, know little of the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime.

Our experiences with German citizens obviously differ. I'd hate to think that German schools have stopped the practice of educating the young on this subject, but in light of the politically correct age we've entered I suppose I really shouldn't be too surprised if they did.

Originally Posted by RG_Lunatic

Just because the camps are there does not mean they are visited by most Germans.

Perhaps you're right, I don't really know. They are a mandatory part of German military training, but their existence and original purpose should be made clear to everyone.

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

You can not argue with RG_Lunatic. He is always right. Yeah right he just thinks he is always right. As for the German people RG what could they have done? Tell me. They could not stop Hitler from coming to power and at the time he came to power they would not have wanted to he made them feel like they were part of a greater power. As for the concentration camps again I say most Germans did not know about them. They did not know they were being killed. But ofcourse RG I know that I am wrong because you say that I am and because of the fact that I am also a German citizen I am denying the past of my country. That is whay you said in other threads that the German people do. And I know that us Germans and the rest of the world owe you everything. Maybe I should just give up my German citizenship because they way you sound in a lot of these threads it is a shame. Anyways I give up trying to reason with you because you only want to be heard.

[Nonskimmer]

There's hardly a nation on this earth that doesn't have some horrible element to their past.

[Medvedya]

Well, your country hasn't done anything nasty - as far as I know...

[GermansRGeniuses]

Med, surely you are forgetting the great Canadian massacre of 1563...


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[Medvedya]

Was that when the town of St. Phillip & Terrance was put to the sword by an angry mob?

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Every nation has had its dark period in its time, but the thing that counts is when a nation transforms itself into a nation that respects other nations and other people and does something for the world. You can not condemn a nation for its past. No one looks down on the US for the slavery or the taking of indian lands and massacreing them, no one looks down on England for they ways they handeld there problems with Scottland and Ireland. And both of them are great nations.

[Nonskimmer]

Originally Posted by Medvedya

Well, your country hasn't done anything nasty - as far as I know...

Everyone knows we're perfect!

Not hardly we ain't!
The early history of Canada is not very much unlike that of the United States. The displacement and even slaughter of entire native communities occured just as often. We too had slavery, but it was abolished a little earlier than in the U.S.

Perhaps the biggest difference was the fact that we remained under British rule for alot longer.

Racism in Canada is just as prevalent as elsewhere, and our internment of ethnic Japanese during WWII was no different than in the U.S. Even second and third generation Canadians, who happened to be of Japanese descent.

I wish many more people in this country would accept these and many other things, but you'd be amazed at the number of people who don't. Only then can we look at ourselves realistically!



Oh, and Terrance and Phillip escaped the mob.
Didn't you hear? Farting saved Canada!

[GermansRGeniuses]

Originally Posted by Medvedya

Was that when the town of St. Phillip & Terrance was put to the sword by an angry mob?

I think so, my sources are fuzzy...