Children of Nazis and their victims share family history to mark Holocaust

The German socialists were inhuman monsters. It is frightening that socialism is still so popular.

@insanewayne The German socialists were inhuman monsters

The German National Socialists were monsters, as were Stalinists. Maybe someday Russia's leaders will own up to the horrific acts committed by the Soviet Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes

An excellent history of how brutal both Germany and the Soviet Union were is T. Snyder's 'Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodlands

Snyder examines the political, cultural and ideological context tied to a specific area of land, under which Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union and Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany committed mass killing of an estimated 14 million non-combatants between the years 1933 and 1945, the majority outside the death camps of the Holocaust

The Nazis were monsters alright, but not socialists. They called themselves the National Socialist German Workers' Party, but were as socialist as North Korea is democratic. They pretended to be socialist until Hitler got elected Reichskanzler/dictator and then they banned it together with liberalism and democratism. The Nazis were more like fascists.

BigYenToday  03:41 pm JST

I respect these people like Ulrich Gantz who have the courage to publicly face up to and repudiate the sins of their fathers. It can't be easy.

This is a sign of maturity and a really civilized people. Unlike some other people we know who wax lyrical about being civilized but do incredible hideous things then hide and pretend it didn't happen,or shift blame on their victims, which reeks of immaturity and boorishness.

We should not be blinded by prejudice or ideology in attributing blame for the truly horrifying record of atrocities that marked the 20th century. The mass killings should not be regarded as an indictment of "-isms", religions or specific nations, but of ourselves, us humans. We were all complicit in the bloodletting. As the Romans used to say: "Man is wolf to man", a truth that cannot be denied. We must all accept the responsibility for Man's seemingly never-ending inhumanity to Man. If not us, who else?

"When I finally learnt who he was, that he was a member of the Einsatzgruppen, I asked myself a lot of questions and I continue to ask myself one question in particular: what would I have done?"

I think all Euros -not only Germans- have asked themselves (or should have) the same question. There were plenty of nazi collaborators and sympathisers ('enablers', to some extent) all across europe in the 30s and 40s.

Probably explains why the Old Continent has come to terms with its past & 'forgiven' Germany; they themselves weren't beyond reproach, far from it.

Can this be called the ‚last European bubble‘?

Many countries were blinded and individuals too.

Wouldn't it be great if all countries guilty of atrocities could come to this point? Unfortunately, some deny, deny, deny.

The German socialists were inhuman monsters. It is frightening that socialism is still so popular

So sad, absolutely a horrific tragedy, but you are so right. We just have to remember and never, ever forget.

but you are so right

What does this mean, exactly?

So sad, absolutely a horrific tragedy, but you are so right. We just have to remember and never, ever forget.

Intentionally conflating socialism with National Socialism is disgustingly dishonest.