Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.
Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.
The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.
It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.
Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to criticize those who accommodated themselves to German occupation, with its ferocious punishments for those who expressed even the mildest opposition.
When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.
In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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