Being German obviously means being sorry.
For everything. Even if it wasn´t "our fault" - or... was it?
I really am curious what Niece´ll learn at school in the coming years.
I hope it´s more than this...
I hope they will not try to make her say "I am sorry for what I did to the Jewish people", as they tried to make me say (but I only moved my lips, not I nor my parents or my Grandparents did anything against any Jewish people).
I hope Niece gets the chance to learn also what others do to each other - not likely she´ll learn all this craziness has finally stopped, no?
Is it just typical German or do you fight the same fights all over the place?
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Interesting post, Iris. I've spent most of my adult years studying this very issue.
Would you like to share? You can reach me via flaviakaiser @ gmx.de - I´d be very interested to hear more.
I agree we all need to study about the horrible wars (which are still going on unfortunately) but there's no need to keep apologizing! It wasn't your generation or your nieces generation, or not every German was involved either! There are good and bad people everywhere.
That is true, too - sadly by nature we rather remember the bad ones...
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