Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.
Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.
When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.
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