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by Factotum on August 26th, 2009
They do. A whole generation of Germans feels a collective guilt. They turn places where Hitler spoke into peace parks. They ban the sale of Nazi paraphernalia and jail people who deny or attempt to downgrade the Holocaust.* They really don't want to talk about those years because they feel shame. That's more than enough. As several people have pointed out, they could have challenged their own government and been taken into the camps themselves.
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*I can't get behind the jailing thing because I am so much in favor of free speech but it's their country, not mine.
Did Hitler's victims really deserve their final solution? And if not, how can nationalist groups defend it without being wrong?
by simon030780 on September 30th, 2010
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Why do some people say that the holocaust did not happen?
by Anonymous on December 21st, 2010
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do you know anything about the holocaust?if so tell me i want to learn
more about it.
by Sarah_T8573 on January 22nd, 2011
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I just watched a show about the Holocaust. Why were/are Jewish people so hated and reviled by so many people, not just Germans?
by oldielocks on November 17th, 2010
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Did civilization die at Auschwitz?
by Truthseeeker on April 21st, 2011
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Being a German I agree. But anyway we can not make it for ourselves that easy.
The greatest part of the German population was not for Hitler and I think there were lots of people who were in high and important positions who knew what was going on from the very first day.
The Generals from the army knew it, the highest judges and the hihest police officers knew what was going on. They did nothing but hoped on their own carreer which they could make.
They could have known better where that system was to go and therefore these people are guilty in my eyes.
The man in the street could do nothing.
by Frederik on August 26th, 2009