Originally posted by Fishy
A general? Your big point being?Do you have any idea how brainwashed many of those people were? Unless they actually knew of the Holocaust which is very doubtful cause then they would have most likely been executed at Nuremberg they did nothing wrong but fight for an ideal they believed was right.
Yes now its easy for us to say they were wrong, but now that is history and for them it was the present. Many now blame American troops for what they are doing in Iraq, and many don't.. Who is right? History will tell. Thats how it was back then too. Allies and Soviets said they were wrong, Germans said they were right. Thats all that matters really. It was an opinion now its a fact that they were idiots, back then it was an opinion nothing more nothing less. If you are honestly blaming your grandparents for what they did then i really do think you need a history lesson because they were just brainwashed believing that what they did was for the greater good just like many troops in Iraq are now doing.
Just like many US soldiers did in Nam... History tells us if we are right or wrong.. When you do something because you believe in it, then at that time you are right. What matters is that if you are proven wrong if you see that your leaders were indeed murderous assholes you can admit to being wrong. That is all that matters, admitting you were wrong and apologising for it. But you can not blame them for doing what they believed was right.
so what? we should just feel sorry for them??
no! they should assume the responsabilities for their actions, u dont have to be a genious to realize that killing another person because hes not aryan is pointless
and yes I blame soldiers for going to iraqi war!! they're not forced to go!
if they're going they obviously believe there's smething evil in iraq or something...