The women and children of Dresden and a dozen other German cities were as guiltless as any other victims of the war. Your hatred of all things German is as irrational as Nazi hatred of you.
Nonsense. They worked in factories, made goods and food to support the Nazis, and gladly benefited from looted goods from innocent nations and people.
I have no dislike or hatred of modern Germans as a group, but to regret for a moment the necessity of war upon their entire civilization -— and all their deaths -— at the time in question is romanticism.
With the rarest of exceptions, they were happily Nazis. They happily killed and happily subjugated others. The only reason we show them the slightest mercy is we needed them as a buffer against an even greater evil, Stalin.
“Your hatred of all things German is as irrational as Nazi hatred of you.”
In fairness, while over-the-top, it’s pretty rational for Jews to hate Germans of the Nazi era.
I don’t know.
I was stationed in Germany for while. Learned to speak German easily.
The modern-day Germans were a pretty darn anti-semetic bunch. I am Scott-Irish white trash. Generic non-denominational Chrisitan. Big white guy; football player. By looks, I could have been Waffen SS.
The inner-Nazi would creep out of Germans when drunk. Consistently.
The only time I got into a fight in the Army was when two locals started going off about Jews. For whatever reason I had had enough and just couldn’t take it.
It ended with me smashing heads with a paving stone and me in German jail, then the “brig.”
I just kinda avoided Germans for the rest of my stint.