German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.
Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.
I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.
Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.
But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.
Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.
If we look at where relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were in 1945 and where we stand now, then we have achieved so much.
Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.
Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.