Re:how do u think the germans feel

How do u think the germans feel???
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Can i just point out it was not the 'Germans' who thought us in 1940's, it was the Nazis. As far as im aware, the Nazi's dont exist anymore?

Wilson - "i'm not on antidepresents, i'm on speed!"

I guess they feel similar to the way Americans feel today with the rest of the world hating them. Does Iraq ring any bells? Their contributing allies, of which I am one, don't fare too much better either. While Germany has a dark history indeed, its citizens never had to carry the demoralizing burden of being internationally regarded as stupid, thanks in large part to one infamous 'world leader' with the vocabulary of a 5 year old. You never think of Germans as being stupid. In fact, it's the complete opposite. Whenever you see the words "Made in Germany", you automatically assume it works. This reputation has its very origins in the far superior German war machines of WW2.

*Next time you're at your local library, you might consider reading up about one German, Albert Einstein, and his relationship to the Atomic Bomb, which ultimately ended a war. Or, better yet, try the largest library in the world. You're looking at it.






"People should know when they're conquered" - Quintus

I actually had the pleasure to visit Germany in 1999 as a guest of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force). As I sat with my counterparts, a discussion of history came up, and I will admit at the time I was fairly ignorant of how Germans viewed history. We still had a good and rather lively discussion. One major thing that I learned, was that pretty much from the rise of the National Socialist German Workers Party to the death of Adolf Hitler is viewed as a space in time that no longer exists.

Many items associated with Nazism are banned from display within the borders of Germany. In my tour of the Deustches Museum and the Luftwaffe Museum, they have examples of WWII machinery on display, however any swastikas that would have been on the vehicles have been painted over to erase their past.

Movies such as U-571, Das Boot, Patton, and the like are almost impossible to view without heavy editing. All in all, I left Germany with the feeling that many Germans are aware of the past, however the history of Nazism is something that is only taught in private, or through open media such as the internet.

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Agree with you!

im lucky than i never born at this time


im from germany and im born in 1982,so sometimes its a little bit hard when somebody call you an nazi (for an example when i play call of duty 4 online, but i dont give a *beep* about it, and when things goes different and for an example i was born like 1920, then i had to try to kill the nazis in WWII. it makes no difference for me. when i had to save my and my familys ass.

so i dont have a problem with that, and when i play online and kill germans it makes no differents for me.

from history: it was terrible what was going on in germany ,with jewish people the whole world war II zenario.

i hope that we all live in peace harmony and freedom, and no holocaust like WWII happends again.



personal i was wondering:

when i travel with some of my buddys - from frankfurt germany to orlando florida for wrestlemania and monday night raw week.

all of your people were more than polite.

everything was great and anybody that ask us from witch state we came from and we reply - from Germany - they stare they were wondering that they dont hear any foreign accent.

and we had a feeling that we found a second home.

;)

Winners always write history!

Fact is, landing in Normndy for the 157th time became so boring, it's such a great change to play on the German side of video games. Talking about U-boat warfare, in the best game of the genre (Silent Hunter III) you play as Germans, and the majority of game enthusiasts come from the US.

And talking about PC and offending others, it's ridiculous that the US and the British still have their racist stereotypes about Germans 60 years after the war, it's PC to call them Krauts but they don't dare to call Arabs ragheads, that's definitely no-no. Ridiculous.

BTW, Band of Brothers did it very right when in the last part all the cheese about camaraderie etc was said by a German general to German troops. The whole series was balanced out by that short scene. The makers of that series really knew how to remove the poison of political correctness!

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