Having lived in Germany for most of my life it's quite sad really.

The majority of Germans today weren't even alive during WW2, yet they are still held personally accountable for other's actions, as if they had killed all those people personally.

They are so afraid of offending someone, and there are so many ridiculous restrictions in place to try and erase the past, I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner.

When it comes to the atrocities of WWII, it's understandable that the German govt wants to eradicate everything associated with them. But to try togo beyond that is crazy. Germans did contribute a great deal to the development of technology in Europe, and guns were an important part of that technology.

Do you even history, bro?

I grew up in W. Germany went to Bavarian schools and then university in Freiburg. I worked there as well.

The whole school system's main goal socially while I was there was about removing the violent impulses from Germans. You were constantly reminded of Germany's sins. Every goddamn day.
To make sure Germans never became bad again, the idea was to not throttle the child with strict discipline, but to let the child unfold like a little flower, with no inhibitions. Silly as it sounds, the anti-authoritarian upbringing so prevalent and fashionable in the 1970s produced two things: one, fewer kids, which will have its own consequences soon enough, since Germans as well as most Europeans are slowly dying out as a group due to low birth rates; and two, little monsters, lots of murderous little monsters who had no sense of right or wrong or of boundaries of propriety. It is a present-tense culture that only cares about today, because yesterday is too painful to think about, and tomorrow is uncertain. No wonder nobody's having large families in Germany- except Muslims who are multiplying like weeds.....

It is a system as phony, hollow and ultimately as empty as the socialist one next door in East Germany which promised a better tomorrow through Marxism, as long as you mouthed the correct sayings of Engels and Karl Marx. As did the East Germans about socialism, nobody in West Germany really believed in the effectiveness of pacifying males through education and upbringing, but if you didn't come out for it in force, there were serious consequences socially, academically and workwise. Just like next door in East Germany if you tried to say you were a Christian or believed in free markets. Sad, really.

It's a take-off on the "Original Sin" argument that the left has managed to push so effectively the last 5 decades or so here.



Check your privilege man