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It’s been almost 3 generations since WW2. In a few years no real Nazis will still be alive (good riddance). Whilst we should never forget the events of WW2 (including the Holocaust) and without downplaying the murder of two-thirds of European Jews (as well as Gypsies, German homosexuals etc) it's time Jews forgave (contemporary) Germans and thereby allow Germans to forgive themselves.
Since the war Germany has been very Pro-Israel and paid reparations. They have been a model country in terms of their behaviour and have built one of the world's great economies and more importantly democratic states. In many ways Germany is the cement that holds the EU together (not just figuratively but literally with their financial contributions to other member-states).
At least two generations of Germans have grown up rightly ashamed, but unjustly fixated, by their grandfather’s crimes and misdeeds (the majority of Germany DIDN'T vote for the Nazis it should be pointed out too, for instance the Nazis got about 44% of the vote in 1933, so not every "grandfather" was guilty). This has lead to a paradoxical situation in which Europe's greatest economy, and a culture that gave the world so much prior to National Socialism, is ashamed to be patriotic because any allusion to patriotism is seen as far-right and therefore incorrectly viewed as fascist because of the Nazi past. Why can't Germans be proud of their achievements since before and since WW2 without being accused of being Nazi's for waving a German flag at the football?
By forbidding Germans to be patriotic and celebrate their culture, and this is often subconscious in nature, we have encouraged Multiculturalism, Political Correctness and Cultural Relativism to take hold in Germany which, combined with mass immigration, has lead to a situation in which there have been cases of Germans being victimised by foreign students in GERMAN schools for being German and in which Germans are often ashamed of their nationality internationally. In other words, it is a world turned upside down. Paradoxically this situation has been terrible for Jews who bare the brunt of the "new" Judeophobia, this time emanating not from ethnic Germans -except some who resent the very things I'm pointing out here sometimes justifiably but unfairly place the blame on Jews alone- but from the Muslim minority which has been allowed to grow like a fifth column in a Germany desperate to prove its non-racist credentials, and thereby allowing this minority to not integrate culturally including holding primitive and Judeophobic views.
It is for these reasons, that I say we need to end the notion that every German is born guilty, It is time Jews forgive contemporary Germans for the Holocaust and in doing so allow Germans to forgive themselves.
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