Sunday, April 11, 2010

Coming to Terms with the Past

Germans have come to terms with the outcomes of WW1, the Treaty of Versailles and the Holocaust. They lost so much and had to accept full responsibility for the outcomes of World War One. Also, Germans have had to deal with the fact that the leader of their country murdered 6 million people in the Holocaust. The German population accepted fascism/Nazism and I am sure they deal with the regret of allowing the murder of their fellow Germans. The world has this illusion that even in current day, all Germans are Nazis and I am sure they struggle to deal with that fact. However, Germans, especially in Dachau, Germans have come to accept the fact that the Holocaust occurred in their country and they are willing to share their dark history with the world. It seems to me that Germans are trying to help prevent the Holocaust from ever happening again by showing the world how awful this is to have happened.

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