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How about - and this is a wild idea - how about we leave to the Germans to decide what constitutes a German nation? Who the f.ck are you to decide?
The Germans lost the war. Their nation was dismembered and millions were displaced. You really think that it's up to the German people as to what kind of country they get to have? Many of their laws in effect today are holdovers from laws imposed on them by the Allied powers. There isn't even true freedom of speech there.
You really think that it's up to the German people as to what kind of country they get to have?
Well, yes.
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Many of their laws in effect today are holdovers from laws imposed on them by the Allied powers.
Not as such, no. The Allies charged the local German state governors (premiers, if you will) to draft a constitution based on the Weimar Republic one. The constitutional assembly, when convened, consisted of German citizens.
The penal code traces back to the 1871 Imperial German Penal Code.
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There isn't even true freedom of speech there.
<shrug> - if the Germans wanted to change their laws to allow pro-nazi agitation and holocaust denial, they could. They don't.
I.e, the Germans get to define what a German state is. And it's one where Nazism isn't welcome. Perhaps a clumsy overreaction as seen with 2014 eyes, but it's their country.
I read that in France,Poland etc the Nazis killed the handicapped there as well. They used mostly a bayonet or just clubbed you to death with a rifle butt and they considered that they did you a favor.
That was part of the war.
Nazi behavior in occupied counties varied a lot from country to country and could almost fill an entire thread. The memorial we're talking about is for German victims.
What crime? This was the law of the land in Germany and the victims were given a hearing in court. How is this different than what the muslims are doing in Islamic countries?
If you remember the Muslims countries supported the Nazi's by and large; then nothing.As far as honoring their soldiers ;most had nothing to do with crimes and fought for their country like most thru history.I fact the terms of peace in WWI set the stage for Hitler and Naz'si success in elections.
Maybe the US and Brits should put up a memorial to the hundred thousand innocent people who were burned alive during the Dresden bombing. Dresden, absolutely no military value.
Maybe the US and Brits should put up a memorial to the hundred thousand innocent people who were burned alive during the Dresden bombing. Dresden, absolutely no military value.
h BS.
Millions of exterminated Jews and 40million dead Russians would disagree, just to name a few million.
Maybe the US and Brits should put up a memorial to the hundred thousand innocent people who were burned alive during the Dresden bombing. Dresden, absolutely no military value.
I wouldn't cry over Dresden considering what the nazis did to not one but many European cities.
What a waste of money...jeez...are they broke like the US or have a large surplus to waste on pointless crap?
WW2 Memorials are pointless crap or WW2 was pointless crap ?
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h BS. 
