I like the idea that it is a responsibility on mankind! Don't know if I should be optimistic though.

No guilt there.We'll just call it 'Coalition of the Willing'.

Danke! Dankedankedanke!

German political mentality has not changed practically at all to this day. They still believe that they are the best in everything and the rest of the nations are worse than them. The EU is nothing more than the German Fourth Reich, only in a different form. To this day, Germany has not paid Poland compensation for war losses, for the destroyed cities, the ruined economy, and for the millions of people killed. Currently, they are even trying to divert their guilt and blame it on Poles, for example, for what happened during World War II.

As a German born many decades after the war I feel my blood boiling at the supposed "Cons" of our collective guilt, since that is theoretical BS. It has not held us back the least little bit. It does not impede on our ability to be on an equal footing internationally, as can be seen daily, and can be seen over the last half century at the very least. Germany is thriving, we are not being held back by acknowledging that Germany messed up big time, and that it is every German's responsibility that something like that will never happen again. Unfortuantely there are plenty of idiots that would prefer to not be reminded and seem to hanker back to those days, which is unforgivable! To my mind, more nations should acknowledge the atrocities commited by themselves in the past, be it what Americans and their government did (and sometimes continue to do) to the native population, to African enslaved people, or what colonialist Britain did to India and many many maaaaany other countries, acknowledging and feeling *actual* guilt about it and the responsibilty that comes with it would dampen the dangerous, atavistic partiotism and nationalism and undeserved pride that is at the root of so many hate crime problems, not to mention wars.

I'm Dutch, but my mother was German, born in 1938. She was sometimes frustrated by this obligatory collective guilt, which of course was guilt about something she had no part in, being a small child at the time. I find this collective guilt troublesome for another reason as well, and that is that it is actually counterproductive. It encourages a certain posture, specifically, absolute deference to Israel, that is so rigid that brains simply stop functioning when they approach that topic. I see this up close in my German relatives: I can point out that the Palestinians are being punished for the crimes of Germany, and it's like talking to a wall, they don't even respond, there is not even the possibility of debate. And because of this rigidity, they are making themselves complicit to exactly the thing that the collective memory and guilt was supposed to prevent.

As a U.S. citizen of German descent who has lived in Germany for many decades, this is my topic - because there is no way to avoid its dominance. I was born in 1951 to U.S. citizens, themselves children of German immigrants of the years before WW I (1881 and 1913), so neither I nor any of my immediate family had anything to do with the entire Nazi disaster personally. That said, however, as citizens of the Euro-American world, we all thought things, did things, said things that contributed to or came from the cesspool that fostered the Nazi phenomenon. Trump's father, for example (himself the child of a German immigrant), was a direct part of the U.S. Nazi world in his active support of the "America First" movement. See pictures of him marching with a gigantic KKK demonstration that can be found using a simple online search. His son, DJT, wants to build his father's "America First" dream on the soil of what would, in that case, "have been" the United States and its Constitution. Nazism is really a worldwide human phenomenon. Just look at our present world! The only societal hope we have is the little beacon of Enlightenment that a group of (mostly formerly English) Colonial thinkers managed to enshrine in the U.S. Constitution that then spread to nations all over the world - including the German post-WWII "Grundgesetz". The Constitution that has, up until now, managed to thwart wannabe dictators (He is said to have remarked to a lawyer once something like: Every time I want to do something, the Constitution stops me! ) is the foundation of freedoms that Neo-Nazis all over the world would love to "suspend". The Nazi problem is not only a German problem; anybody anywhere who wants freedom only for his or her own kind of people wants NATIONAL Socialism - meaning I and my folks get all the first pickings and everybody else gets the leftovers at best. That is the heart of Nazism, and it beats in many a human chest.

The US still believes ( or wanna make their ppl believe) that they're the best country in the world. And it's proven wrong so easily. And Germanys past is dark but when we look at Israel now, today, are are so much better?

Great Job!!! But as you say every Country has a gilt!! Your Country with the native Americans with the Black People in your Country. The Holocaust cost more the 6.000.000 lives but how many lives cost that what your American Heritage had done. Are their any Memorials for that what they have done??? What is with the Education in America do Teachers teach that Topic??? And like your Country you can take every " Great Nation" So at least I like what you do ans how do you do it. Greetings from Thomas a German living in Austria❤

A great video! I myself was born in 1988, my paternal grandparents were children in the war and talked sporadically about that time, my grandmother lost her father two weeks before the end of the war and she avoided the subject. When I was a child, my grandmother's neighbor, who was over 90 years old, talked a lot about the war, he had the beginnings of dementia and often sat in my grandparents' kitchen (I lived there for two years as a child) and started talking about things, he was literally consumed by guilt, sometimes my grandmother wasn't quick enough to shoo me out of the kitchen and I heard horrible things about the war that a child shouldn't hear. After the Second World War there was an iron wall of silence, my parents' generation (born in 1953 and 1955) experienced it that way, nobody wanted to talk about the war. I don't feel any direct guilt, I can't help what my ancestors did, but we have a duty to prevent something so cruel from happening again. That's why I'm very worried about the current political situation with the shift to the right and the fact that denying the Holocaust is socially acceptable again in some circles, even though it's a criminal offense, and that some people are openly discussing about remigration etc. - that's something I'm deeply ashamed of!

Wir sind nicht verantwortlich was damals war, aber wir sind verantwortlich dass so etwas niemals wieder geschieht.....Politiker die heutzutage wieder nach "Remigration" schreien sollten unser aller Ansporn sein, sich unserer schrecklichen Vergangenheit zu stellen und dafür zu sorgen dass es nie wieder geschehen kann.

If you have any knowledge and a brain capacity over 10%, you know they are back. In Germany, in France, in Europe over all. But the most scary thing is to watch at the actual USA where a convicted rapist and cult leader is using the exact same playbook as the Nazis did here. Financed by a Russian who actually blame Poland for WW2. I am a person who define hisself as someone on the right political spectrum. I never changed fundamentally my own personal political views, but nowadays the new Nazis call me a Libtard, Leftist, Commi or "Linksgrün versifft". They are framing or free Press as liars and promote RT and 4chan as the truth. I don't know how I would have possibly act in 1933, but I know how I act in 2024 and that's no step back against the enemies of our free democracies, no step back against the prophets of hate, no step back against the racists and theire hate for human live.

fu that its only our silly government is trying to shame us forever for things which are history by repeating old ww2 shows to keep the guilt level high when they waste our tax money somewhere at the world without reason. you never feel guilty about something you havent done yourself

Stigmatization of Germans as the "bad guys": This is a deeply entrenched feature of public discourse in the US, in Britain, France, Russia (although I don't understand Russian), and around the world. In my opinion, it doesn't matter how the German narrative around the World Wars and the Holocaust changes - this image will remain, as long as it is appreciated or serves a purpose.

Homer Simpson once asked Lisa,what it's called,when you like somebody and at the same time distain him.she answered:I don't know,but I'm sure germans have a word for it.(still funny,though 😂)

That's the reason why germans love expat videos. Second hand pride.

To me, Us-americans don't appear loud. Okay louder than us but not loud as the spaniards. Go to Spain it is crazy.

Thank you so much for your thoughts on our history! I am 58 now and I sometimes wish some other countries would feel only half of my (felt) guilt for the history of their countries....

I moved to Germany shortly after a visit to Israel about 12 years ago. My impression was that both countries were suffering from what I would describe as an inter-generational trauma. This is not logical because the people originally affected by the holocaust are now dead. But the children and grandchildren still feel it as will the great grandchildren and so on forever. Logic is not what is going on. What is not happening is forgiveness, forgiveness of the self and then forgiveness of the other. Guilt and shame bring with them no benefit. It is often said that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. I wonder about this. It seems to be an endless cycle of fear, kill, repeat. Maybe we've had enough history for now. Pause on history. The killing in Gaza, where the historical victims repeat the crimes of those who victimised them is a tragedy of the human condition. There must be a reason that so many Israelis choose to come back and live in Berlin. Anyone interested in this topic might look up Thomas Hübl kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fs-neZqVmb-tiZs.html&ab_channel=MYSTICAMagazin

Remarkable how the US never deal with their unfathomable failures of their past. Extinction the indigenous people almost just going for the land grab. Slavery. And then there is the modern US who has wrought unspeakable havoc in the entire world with millions of victims, mostly innocent. But nobody does dare to even mention that.

Guilt can only be and is always only personal. Everyone born after Adolf Nazi created the 1,000 year Reich lasting 12 years cannot be guilty. Full stop. It would be the same to hold and punish todays US Americans for the atrocities having been done to slaves in the US. However there is a strong moral implication. Being a German implies to take part in the actions necessary to „repair“ what has been done in German name. That is the demand asked of a Germans today. This is why Germany will in some way always have some kind of special relation to Jews and Israel. Even in 1,000 years from now, the industrial killing of millions of human beings by Germans will be clearly remembered as it was an „outstanding“ atrocity in number and kind. Germany’s neo fascists claim Germany paid for all it’s debts. We would be having so to say a balanced account. Apart from the fact that this is a strange and hardly applicable way of looking at this topic, this is not what it is about. The fascists attitude should not be mixed up with the one of young people in Germany who give expression to the fact that they „are fed up“ with the topic. All of us have been taught at school in this respect so repetitively that I do understand that it can get too much for an individual. The crucial point now is not the acceptance of a moral duty. Most Germans will see that. The real challenge is the neo-fascism in Germany and most of the western world. (I am leaving aside the German challenge of remembrance.) Here we have to be clear towards our politicians: AfD in Germany, Meloni and Salvini Italy , Le Pen and Zemour France, Trump and almost the entire GOP mob USA, Orban, Putin and Xi Chi Ping Peng Pong, Katjinski and PIS mob Poland, Wilders Netherlands, Erdogan and his mob, to name but a few. We might find ourselves rather quickly in a fascist world with a hell of a lot of „Führer“, each one of them stronger than the other, which means war! 1) So go to vote. It’s not a privilege but a duty. 2) Be human. BE human. Be HUMAN. BE HUMAN. Always! 3) Be aware and beware! They are coming again all these Adolfs.

I can agree with your assessment and would add: 1. Guilt and shame are very damaging to the collective soul of Germany and Austria today, like would be for any people. 2. The winners write history and many war crimes around the world and also by the Allies were never reviewed in the same way the Nazi crimes were, e.g. Uygur concentration camps or North Korean slaves in China, WW2 Bombing of Dresden, Napalm use in Vietnam... 3. The question / lession of "What would you have done in a regime and time like that?" gets way too little attention. Most people will follow any totalitarian trend as history shows again and again, and it's understandable even. People are afraid of punishment, they have families, they might believe in the propaganda even and hope for a better life. Just don't think you would for sure be the hero rescuing the jews or other victims, you would most likely be the camp guard. I'm not trying to be pessimistic, but realistic. It takes a lot of introspection to digest these points and actually become someone who could resist propaganda and peer pressure to take part in these kind of crimes. Stay free and critical, civil DISobedience is so important. Some of the most evil actions in history came with good intentions or at least packing and were supported by the vast majority, this is timeless. Look at our world today and you may see many patterns on repeat.

Americans should have more guilt tbh. Or at least some to begin with...

The way history is being portrayed was always political. It can be a force for good and bad. It can empower or demoralise. In Germany we only got this sense of guilt with the "cultural revolution" of 1968 and thereafter. I see it as no coincidence, that in the West today every nation loves to speak about its dark past (slavery, colonialism, nazism etc.) and connects it to policies of today. Like in the UK, "we should accept millions of muslims, because we were the colonisers 150 years ago". You see similar things all over western Europe. Or in the US, "we should accept Blacks behaving violent and destroying cities (BLM riots) because us Whites are so racist". It is self-hatred plain and simple and it stems from leftwing political ideologies. This feeling of shame that many exhibit is also why most migrants that were born in Germany have no intention to be associated with being German. They don't know self-hatred from where they come from, so they would rather not assimilate into becoming like this. Only if you are proud about yourself, people want to be like you.

Loved it :) BUT I would love you to go a bit further in depth when it comes to a few of these topics! What led to this habit! What was the reason for this rule/law! aso Would be fantastic!

Our far-right party AfD calls this „Schuldkult“(cult of guiltyness)

For Mittermeyr, a little more of the sketch shows, that his (and I am in the same generation) was the one with the most pressure. Our grandparents after the war, there where no Nazis at all, it was Hitler alone and Speer was one who proved it as a good german. See the old Lady at 6:30 (*). The generation of my father, there was also a taboo to talk about it, as this where mostly the parents. Some of them died in WW2. There where some thinking like, in case of the peace in WW1, where Germany has no chance the WW2 was started etc.... Me, 1968, it was exactly what Mittermeyer say in this Video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oLFkrNV1ur_cm6s.html Do not know the rest of this, but also I think, that my generation was the one, who was fully educated about the Nazi Germany. And all guilty on the side of Germany. And every phrase in our history class in the 10th was, we are guilty. No, Germany has no right to get revanche for WW1, WE ARE GUILTY etc. etc. etc. This is normal, as we need some generations to got a distance to a subject. And then in one generation, all is putting on the table. And when I see, that my generation, as people in the green party, going crazy because some german soccer fans going out with the flag, I think, we have to think about our history with a little distance and to give the next generations a little chance to love some kinds of our country without getting patreotic. (*) The old Lady at 6:30 who say, 'Neither we, nor our children ... are blame". EVERY GERMAN IN THIS GENERATION WAS INFORMED ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF JUIFS; perhaps not in detail, but even my grandparens on the fully country side know that juifs where emigrated, have to work in "prisons" etc. And all of them have done nothing, because they were afraid. This I can uderstand, but say, this is not our buisiness, is a shame.

Nobody should feel guilty or ashamed for things that happened before they were even born. Y'all can hate on germans all you want, no one cares. But it's ironic seeing germans say "never again" yet they fell for the same draconian stuff that happened during the pandemic.

My day of birth was the 12th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. I'm German, and on "German guilt" I see myself in the camp "not guilty, but responsible for not letting that come back". @NALFVLOGS: Thank you for your understanding. This always feels good. But I'm a bit perplexed by the end of your post. What exactly does it mean to say "all nations are responsible for ensuring that this does not happen again"? How is this acceptance of responsibility supposed to happen in concrete terms? Massacres have always been part of human history, and shouldn't all nations recognize their respective responsibilities? Hiroshima and Nagasaki were senseless massacres and war crimes, how many more such massacres have been committed by the USA since then? Or before that, starting with the land theft at its founding? Wouldn't it be appropriate to recognize "American guilt" and the consequences of this? Nalf, how do you yourself deal with this "American guilt"? I sometimes think that the attitude of the Germans is simply too comfortable for other nations, they can rest on the fact that the Germans are somehow guilty, because look, they say so themselves, so "we are the good guys". Other nations also have their own responsibilities and are more or less capable of dealing with them. In Poland, it is forbidden by law to say that Poles collaborated in the genocide of the Jews. Is that taking responsibility? The list of such examples worldwide is endless.

As an American, I wish U.S. schools taught about slavery, Jim Crow, and the genocide of Native Americans the same way German school teach about the Holocaust. Americans *need* to feel collectively guilty about those things, but instead we just keep voting for white supremacist authoritarians like the annoying orange.

großartiges video. wuerdest du in erwaegung ziehen, einestages ein video komplett in deutsch zu machen? great video. would you mind todo someday a video completely in german?

As grandchilde of guestworkers from the 70's. I can only tell this: It's important not to forget, but don't let it be a burden for the future. What happend can't be undone. Resposibility and respect for the past. And a new perspectiv for the future.

Imagine you are living in a small town and everybody knows the horrible things your father or grandfather has done to the members of that community. That feeling is what we are talking about. It's not guilt, it's not taking responsibility, it is shame. Not feeling it would make you shameless. it's uncomfortable, It's unfair, it doesn't help, it's probably even harmful, but I still think it is the proper emotional reaction to immorality and indecency of this scale.

Hey NALF, great video! A heads up: It's illegal to show the sw*stika in public in Germany, and this includes social media and KZfaq videos, unless you have a permit. I didn't know this until recently when a dear friend of mine got in trouble for sharing a picture from Wikipedia on Facebook for educational purposes that had a sw*stika in it. He's a known and popular social democrat in my town, so very far removed from extremism or n*zism. He eventually had to pay a four-figure fine after a heavy and very confusing legal battle. It's probably extremely rare that this happens, but still, maybe you should blur the ones in your video to be safe! As for the video topic, I could write a whole essay on this, but I'll try to keep it somewhat short: In theory, I think there should be more historical "guilt" in the world, but I don't particularly like how arrogant our approach has made many Germans. First of all, the "guilt" is not comprehensive: Many minority groups who fell victim to the holocaust are barely acknowledged, many still face discrimination today, and Germany has other dark spots in history as well (other g*nocides in the 20th century) that are pretty hush-hush and whose victims and their descendants never received reparations. But most striking of all is that facism is currently on the rise and most Germans don't realize not only how extreme and scary it has gotten, but also that they're complacent and even involved. Yes, I'll open this can of worms: they cheer on a probable g*nocide another facist government is currently perpetrating and cheer on the (sometimes violent) crackdown by our own government and our own police on Germans who speak out - especially if those who speak out happen to be POC or Muslims. In those cases extreme Islamophobia and xenophobia comes to the surface, by the very same people who call themselves tolerant and liberal. And the many Jewish people who speak out are deemed "not real Jews" - if they're even acknowledged at all (which they mostly aren't). That's the real scary part: The facism is arising within the very middle of our society now too, it's not just AfD and their followers anymore. To sum it up, many if not most Germans are incredibly arrogant about how they learned oh so much from history, believing it can never happen again. Meanwhile, they actually have not learned anything. But I don't want to dunk on Germans too much here. It's a human condition to not learn from history. It's not just Germans. Many Germans just falsely believe they're immune when clearly they're not because of their "guilt". Never again is right now!

As a German, I'm all for the sentiment that the Holocaust isn't my fault, but it our collective responsibility as humans to prevent a repeat. And as germans we have to be frontrunners there, because we have the "collective memory" of how something like that could happen. Not because we're guilty, but because we are in the unique position to keep the memory of how the holocaust came to be. So I think it's extremely important to keep talking about that in school a lot, so everyone knows the symptoms. And I can't stand all those germans who try to paint themselves as victims here because people remember the holocaust. Especially since they usually tend to politically align with people who ARE the symptoms of a repeat.

No guilt for me. Only a really strong interest in "how could this happen here in Germany with people like my grandparents living here" and the feeling of responsibility for the future - which makes the current political situation with the rise of the right wings quite unbearable for me. I'm a Vorstand of an arts club with 200 years of tradition. Quite late to our 200th founding day last year we looked deeply into our history during 3rd Reich - knowing that if we do not do it now who else will ever do it. Times fly by and we are the last one to know personally people who were alive during that time. Our Vereins history was somehow "trivial". We immediately got rid of the jewish Vorstände, we got rid of the jewish members - like it was nothing. Nazis entered our Vorstand, our work went on like nothing had changed. Former members were rehomed, they were deported, they were murdered, they vanished. And we organized art exhibitions. We decided to spend a Stolperstein for every murdered member, every year one until every murdered member is remembered. Every year from now on we will have therefore a public rememberance of our guilt - the Verein has this guilt, it was active during this time. No, we, the active Vorstand have no guilt personally. But we have the responsibility to find a way in acknowledging the guilt of the Verein. And to remember our members we failed horribly.

I am German, born 1967, I grew up in SHA, Mauerstraße 15, my grandfather was a simple soldier in WW2, truck driver, my grandmother was a housewife, as was very common these days. I had lots and long talks about the Shoa with her and also about the mindset that was prevalent in this era. It would lead too far to go into greater detail, just so much: the dictatorship and the propaganda was able to drive massive parts of the normal citizenship into a mass psychosis, hatred and disgust towards anyone wo was not pure "arian". We do see patterns of what happened at that time again today, which scares me shitless. So it is definitely important to hold up the collective memory, not for the sake of collective guilt but for the sake of collective responsibility. As a sidenote, I have a lot of pictures from my grandparents and also from the Nazi era which were made in Schwäbisch Hall and I have a ton of stories to share. If you would be willing to hear and see them, get in touch and keep up your great work! Holger Kneib.

There actually was a huge public discussion all over the media back when Schröder was Chancellor whether or not it is ok to say "I'm proud to be German.". We're definitely patriotically impaired. 😉 It also shows in things like in demographic studies you rarely ever (if at all) see ethnicities. It's just not looked at because things like that had been abused so badly back then.

I have long thought that we should learn much more from the Holocaust. We need to abstract better in order to be able to apply the knowledge gained universally to the future. Just preventing a second, identical Holocaust from happening is not enough for me. If, for example, Hitler's photographer is held liable, shouldn't the same apply to every employee of a company that imports rare earths from slave labor? And what consequences should this have in general? Should there be a right to quit for moral reasons and be compensated by the state? Just to give one example. The concept of guilt does not seem useful to me. And not only Germany, but every country (including Israel, by the way) has a responsibility to respect human rights.

This might be the reason why Germans love these videos foreigners make about Germany. We are like a dry sponge that absorbs good words about our country, because we have had heard so many bad things about Germany and think other countries still see us as the bad guys. And perhaps because we don't learn to praise our country for the good things we are glad when others do.

Just pay the reparations

Those, who think they have to feel guilty don't really understand what it is about. It's about rememberance and responsibility. Furthermore it's actually the one major thing I feel especially proud of Germany, because compared to almost all other countries Germany stands by its bad history and the atrocities it includes. That is actually really something where Germany has the actual moral high ground. So people, who think it's a collective guilt are quite wrong. The German rememberance culture is something to be proud of, because it's quite unique.

And about polish trauma

The case for inherited guilt is a misunaderstanding of what is being taught. No one in Germany makes the people and following generations responsible for what happened. That is what they hear if they are told that "germans" did this. So they jump directly do a logic like this: "Germans did this. I am german. Therefore I am being made accountable. But I did nothing wrong. I wasn't even alife then". That train of thought is happily supported by reactionaries, who talk about a "Schuldkult", a cult of guilt the german nation tries to push onto the people so they behave docile. And after 100 years we have again a surge in right wing activities all over Europe. Even in Germany.

"Schuld" ist doch der völlig falsche Begriff! Es geht ums Erinnern, wir haben eine gute Erinnerungskultur! "Schuldig" sind nur noch ganz wenige weit über 90-Jährige, die damals Dienst im KZ hatten. Insofern: Diese Gegenüberstellung macht in dieser Form leider keinen Sinn...

If I were an Alien who knew everything about humans and had to guess where this took place, I would never have come up with Germany. The past doesn't fit at all with the people who live here today. It's incomprehensible to me how something like this could have happened.

Ich bin Jahrgang 1996 selbst von meinen Urgroßvätern waren nicht alle im Krieg. Da sie zu jung waren. Einer meiner Urgroßväter ist in Lettland geblieben, er ist erst 2004 gefunden worden nachdem ein Massengrab gefunden wurde was neben dem Krankenhaus war in dem er gelegen hat. Er war fast vom Anfang bis Ende des Krieges die ganze Zeit an der Ostfront. Drei Wochen vor dem Ende des Krieges wurde er ermordet. Von der anderen Seite der Familie ist mein Ururgroßvater leider noch als alter Mann aufgrund seiner Sympathien zur SPD in den Volkssturm eingezogen worden. Damit wollten die Nazis dafür sorgen das sie den Krieg gewinnen und zum anderen keine Ideologischen Feinde im eigenen Land nach dem Krieg haben. Aufgrund der politischen Nähe zur SPD/CDU und diesem Tod herrscht bei meinen Großeltern und Eltern eine enorme Abscheu gegenüber den Nazis. Was ungünstig ist weil heute jeder so bezeichnet wird und ihm heutigen politischen Wettbewerb meine Sympathien bei einer Partei liegen die die neue Arbeiterpartei ist, aber leider, vollkommen unbegründet, auch als Nazi-Partei verteufelt wird. Für mich ist die Zeit von 1933-45 relativ uninteressant, die grundlegenden Probleme unseren heutigen Gesellschaft sind meines Erachtens in der Zeit von 1800 bis 1840 entstanden. Das einzige was sich geändert hat ist die Probleme von Lokalen Problemen sich zu Globalen Problemen entwickelt haben. Aber man muss leider anerkennen das der Schuldkult eine enorme Macht in Deutschland hat was schlimm ist. Es lebt niemand mehr der irgend eine Schuld an der damaligen Situation hatte. Und ich muss leider sagen das ich in den letzten Jahren sehr an zu zweifeln fange ob die Zahlen zum ....... korrekt sind. Sie sind mir sehr hoch gegriffen und die Reputation der Alliierten und Kommunistischen Kriegsparteien hat in den letzten Jahren sehr gelitten. Ich traue diesen Mächten zu die Todeszahlen für ein solches Verbrechen aufzupoliern um sich besser darstehen zu lassen. Dennoch bin ich den ehemaligen Alliierten nicht feindlich gesinnt, aber die Argumentation des Israelischen Staates das ihr Völkermord in Gaza gerechtfertigt ist weil die Alliierten einen Völkermord in Dresden verübt haben halte ich für unmenschlich. Seine Verbrechen und sein Morden Unschuldiger mit einer anderen Tat des Mordens anderer Unschuldiger zu rechtfertigen nur weil diese einem Volk oder Ethnie angehören ist für mich unglaublich bösartig.

Me as a German thought you had the intention to clarify a lot about this topic …. and choosing these days because of certain happenings taking place right now….. to sum all up and point out that a feeling of guilt should never ever lead to unquestioned solidarity with the victims if they are behaving in certain ways. Btw I have seen real survivors of the holocaust speaking out against nowadays still existing colonialism and they pointed out that „not in my name“ stands for the shameless use of their suffer to justify unjustifiable oppression. It’s sad to have the impression of living in a country that’s not able to get rid of so many illnesses and even having managed to strengthen their antisemitism by oppressing religious Jews who speak out against groups which use the Jewish label and the former suffering for political [zio..sm] reasons. I am watching and enjoying your content for years now and I would not be surprised if you just didn’t point that out because you’re aware of the way our so called „freedom of speech“ works. You can say whatever you want - if you can handle the consequences. Hmmmm…. just gotta think about the situation in the states. If u dare to have „the wrong mindset“ you don’t need to be surprised for not getting the job you want or (exactly like in Germany) being accused of being an antisemite. Even if you’re a Jew. For situations like this we have invented new words like „self hating Jew“. Whatta crazy world…. Best wishes to *you! *and u too!!!

great video again: thank you: i have been watching your videos now for a long time and i enjoy how well you research and how balanced you report: you have become a real culture attache: for germany and for the us: that is wonderfull to watch: i was an exchange student in texas at the beginning of the 80 with AFS and i remember tha we were seen as culture attaches: so you are a wonderfull example of this: thank you: one thing still missing: a good video of german fussball begeisterung: maybe you can get some good stuff during the euorpean champoinship: or if you want i can invite you to eintracht frankfurt stadium to see some real fans :-))). all the best

Honestly i dont feel any stigma from any neighbors and relations feel very close and friendly, be it the brittish, the US, the french or the dutch. In Poland some people on the internet might still hold a grudge but even with poles, in person they have always been very nice people.