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Originally Posted by Alex
Why should today's German citizens feel guilt over things that happened almost 70 years ago?
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Depends what you understand if you are using the word "guilty" - if you mean 'to feel ones own responsibility in the eyes of god' than it's absolutely no problem. There are a lot of open questions and for sure the history of the years 1933-1945 is not finished today.
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As an American I don't feel guilt over slavery that happened 150 years ago.
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But how do you feel about Vietnam for example? Take a look at this pictures ('Die Opfer von "Agent Orange"' means "The vcitims of Agent Orange")
Dioxin-Opfer: Das giftige Erbe des Vietnamkrieges - Wissenschaft - stern.de
(Here's another page with some english comments:
Fotos of American Vietnam War -- Fotos des amerikanischen Vietnamkriegs )
In Vietnam war 2.000.000 Vietnamese people were killed from american soldiers. 3.000.000 Vietnamese are suffering today.