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Last two words in the title are so important.

USA is a large country and in general similar people like anywhere else but democracy is misused there by evil people .There everybody has a chance to be what he ,she wants and in that sense those with evil ideas have always more determination to achieve it .Anybody can become a president even one like Biden or Trump.

the whole world is at fault. something like ww2 with everything connected to it would have never been possible without ww1 laying the groundstones. the issue was between austria and serbia and should have been sorted out by those parties without everyone chiming in.

1. Jahrgang 1955, da kann man sagen, wie die Dinge erstmal zu klären sind. Erst wollte möglichst von Nazi- Verbrechern nichts wissen, meine Eltern waren da eine Ausnahme, bis 1968 dann die Aufarbeitung begann. Schuldig? Nein. Aber für immer muss in sein, für die Deutschen zu erst, dass diese furchtbaren Verbrechen nicht mehr passieren. Das gilt aber für alle Nationen, sollte für alle sein, ein Denkmal, ein Mahnmal. Wir sind schuldig im Sinne "Nie wieder". Zu Preußen: Ich bin Historikerin, der Untertan wie von Heinrich Mann ist die eine Sache, die andere sind die preußischen Tugenden im besten Sinne. Wäre ganz gut, wenn man die Dinge nicht so einseitig wäre ... Bitte entschuldigt, Schlaganfall, deshalb besser noch in Deutsch, schreiben geht schon wieder, aber in Englisch und Französisch ist es noch mühsam.

This is a beautifully done video, no doubt about it. Mr. Nalf, you seem a nurturing and authentic human being....Bravo!

Thanks for the good video. I work for Auschwitz and Flossenbürg memorial sites, as well as the federal archives of Germany, so I am quite in the middle of memorial commemoration. As a German born in the 70, my feelings are quite complex on the matter. You put the words nicely. Hope other countries will eventually have a closer look at their dark pasts, too. It will make the world a better place.

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Responsability is the right word. German Guild is only used but those Hamas-fascists. Am Israel chai.

I think, collective guilt is like witch hunting and at the end of the day it is fascist ideology. It is the same like the collective guilt of the jews or the communists or the gays. The problem with the Americans is, that they have never faced problems with fascist ideology. That's why we find a lot of fascist ideology in the USA until today. Nobody is responsible for criminal means except the people who took them into force. It is as simple as it is. I don't feel any responsibility for our European leadership who give lots of money to warlords of Libya to let them hunt refugees down. It is crime against humanity, but I am not resposible for it, because I didn't set up these criminal means against humanity. And I am also not responsible for military actions of the German Bundeswehr in Jugoslavia without permit of the UN Security Counsil. Do you think the Americans as a whole are guilty for the Iraq war? No they are not. Responsible and guilty are the military US leaders like Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell and nobody else.

You should read "Ordinary Men", it will open your mind about what monsters live in almost any of us. Absolutly chilling and amazing book. It is about a group of Hamburg residents getting send to Poland to pacify the area.

The guy at 7:25 ... LOL ... what a dreamer ;-)

Wouldn't the correct translation for "Stolperstein" be "stumble stone"? That's what they are meant to be: something to stumble over and be reminded of someone who was killed by the Nazis.

you are right in thinking that not only germans are succeptable to his kind of stuff. If i remember correctly there was a school experiment in the US called "the third wave" which escalated like crazy and got the teacher expelled after he lost control over it.

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This video is bullshit. America wiped out the Real Americans and not one American gives a f!

Wenn is IF in that case, not when

As a German, I see this more as a responsibility than as guilt. We have a resource that many countries do not have: the comprehensive processing and documentation of the events that led to such crimes. Instead, in many countries, the crimes of their ancestors are deleted or rewritten. We have to fight against this so that history does not repeat itself. Even if it often feels like fighting windmills, we have to remind other people. Nothing good happens if we just look away.

BRAVO ! - Gutes und objektives Video. - Sonnige Grüsse aus der Schweiz .

I am born 30 years after the war in Germany. I am neither guilty nor responsible for what happened back then. However, I am responsible for it to not happen again. In that regard, we Germans have some kind of advantage over most other people. We (at least a lot of us) know and acknowledge that such atrocities may happen to an educated society like ours. We know and acknowledge that it is possible that this may happen again to our society, since it happened twice to us (Nazi-Germany and GDR). We know that it is required to stay vigilant, while I have the impression that a lot of other people cannot imagine that this at all may happen to their society. Trust me, it can. Germany does some things differently than other countries. E.g. due to the nazi experience, the German army is not allowed to operate within German borders except for defending against an invading country or humanitarian help during desaster recovery. It is not allowed to be applied to fight crime or terrorism in Germany. It is not allowed to do any law enforcement, riot control, border control, etc, not even in a supportive role. This was the reason why the army could not intervene in the terrorist attack at the Olympics in Munich, 1972. A politician wanted to change that in the course of 9/11. His argument was: the whole world does it differently, if you are the only one doing it differently than every one else, you may be the wrong one, it is arrogant to think to know better that any one else. Yes, I am that arrogant to believe that there are some things that we Germans ought to know better than any one else. At least we Germans ought to be more aware of some things. I slightly disagree on your supposed common resposibility. I rather see a shared responsibility where each society has its own and different share of responsibility. For example, I recently learned that the second world war was the number one single event that killed the most people. I was surprised to learn that the number two single event killing the the second most people was the colonialization of the Americas. Already pointing that out is an insolence of mine, it is the responsibility of some one else.

IMO Having people feel unable to say they're proud of their country is a small price to pay, considering. We're still proud of other things, it's not like we've been robbed of that emotion. I'd argue social media has a much worse effect on our emotions than memorials of WW2 today. Plus, the way I was told about WW2 was not about guilt, but responsibility. It sounds the same on a first glance, but they're very different. This responsibility must never go away or fade out. On the contrary, other countries should adapt it as well. We can't and shouldn't ask others to do that, but we can and should demonstrate how it can be done.

I agree with practically everything you have said. The Germans are the ONLY people I know of who have accepted their responsibility. Born and bred in the U.S, I emigrated to Germany when I was 24 and, in my own mind, voluntarily took my share of German collective guilt ("guilt," I believe, is essentially a Judeo-Christian mode of existence) upon myself. Long before that, I had already turned Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, "The Scarlet Letter," into an opera. The leading character, Arthur Dimmesdale, is a person whose thoughts and actions are governed by overwhelming feelings of guilt. A perspective of redemption is offered to him just before his death, but he feels that redemption is not meant for him. Today's Germans feel very strongly that it is their responsibility to free all human beings everywhere from all forms of oppression - especially the destruction of the environment by the wealthy. As a person of Jewish heritage, I feel that Netanyahu's government's crimes in Gaza are imposing collective guilt on all Jews worldwide - and that this is UNBEARABLE! These crimes are sullying the incredible magnitude of international Jewish culture! I recall the work of the Jewish-Czech writer Franz Kafka, whose fictitious characters are pervaded with difuse feelings of guilt - presumably stemming from the myth commonly accepted during his lifetime that the Jews were to blame for the crucifiction of Christ. What attitude will posterity assume towards Netanyahu's crucifiction of Gaza? Will all Jews be thrown (including by ourselves) into the same boat of guilt once again?

so I guess I'm around your age and I can't really agree with your opinion or the subtone of the comments that you read. Yes, we get a lot of the historical context of that time in school, but I also know and learned that we have invented some crazy things (car and computer being the latest things that changed the whole world imho). So I'm not really surprised or something if anyone says something positive about germany. I'm happy and proud I guess, but not surprised. On the other hand the past is a responsibility and even though I never had that "you are guilty" sentiment thought in school, I think we still share a responsibility to not let something like this happen again. As you said, this should be part of every human in every country, but we can't be sure that this happens. So we, as historically involved people at least have to take responsibility. That's my thought at least :)

60 years here, sharing the 70s school education with comedian Mittermaier. I'm generally agreeing with many things you said, but would like to add a few words of caution. It's true that today's living Germans are not to blame for their Nazi past. And yes, we are bored of some stereotypes portrayed in some movies from over the pond (but most countries get their share of it, for good or bad - many films aim for the simpled minded). Still, Germany has a special responsibility for dealing with its past. While it is true that something like that could happen anywhere, it DID happen ONLY HERE and no black spot in the history of any Western nation comes even close to the dimension of atrocities of WWII and the holocaust. Not colonialism, not slavery and not how indigeneous people were treated on the new continents. Therefore, each one born here carries the burden and responsibility of that. It must never happen again. Yet, rightwing parties are on the rise and in parts of Germany already achieving local majorities, which is extremely worrysome. The mindset of the Nazis has never become extinct, it just went into hiding, but this is changing. So you cannot really educate enough about the consequences of facism and falling for right wing propaganda. Which is of course true everywhere else as well. And ironically it's especially the right wing extremists who complain about being "denied" to feel proud about being of Geman nationality and proclaim "Stolzmonat" waving our democratic flag whilst striving for ideals that were in power under black-white-red flags, because they would like to erase the memory of the damage their likes have done in the past. Drawing pride of one's nationality rather than ones personal achievements actually makes little sense. First of all, nations are a recent thing; the German speaking area for most to the time wasn't a nation but a collection of duchies under a common empire that also covered areas of other languages, and which had migrants coming from all around all the time. Then, it's just a coincidence, in which country one is born, and we have just been lucky that's it's not a slum in a 3rd world country. And finally, if one embraces our culture, and the Goethe's, Schillers, Beethovens, Einsteins and Plancks we had, cannot ignore the worst part of our history. We have to do as much or as few with the bright sides of our history as we have with the darkest side. There's no reason to feel guilty of the German past, but it's a duty to learn from history and to fight for our democracy, to not fall for propaganda or pub gossip even if you're pissed with some current policies. It could be much worse, and it actually was.

100 to 150 years people where brutal ??? You can go back to the 60/70 in the us and you would witness the us government cover up the crimes of the KKK 😂😂😂😂

American solders committed a lot of war crimes in Germany after ww2. Letting German POWs starve to death torture them and killing them at the end and putting them in mass graves. It’s all well recorded and documented but because there are the winner no one talks about it. The Americans where not better as the Germans And I don’t fell guild ore responsibility at all for obvious reasons

Great movie, stellar rate on IMDB. I enjoyed it tremendously.

When it comes to Guilt: I think every single human has the potential to become the bad guy (also women). Unlike it is in films, where the good and the bad are always easily recognizeable.

Great video, thank you! I feel no guilt but I acknowledge the responsibility that we all have preventing that anyting similar might happen again. In Germany, unfortunately, we tend to connote many things in communication negatively. No matter what you do, it never seems to be enough or never exactly right and there always seems to be someone who knows how to do it right or better and of course they have to tell you right away. (This is of course a generalization and a stereotype that doesn't always apply.) The motivating effects of positive feedback are lost in the process. And a endless negative feedback, which is actually supposed to spur you on, eventually has a demotivating effect. Mittermeier's comedy show, excerpts of which were part of the article, shows this quite well in a satirical way. If you don't recognize this and think you can go on like this forever, you risk a backlash. And this is exactly what we are currently seeing in parts of the country and the population. That is why I consider this contribution to be very valuable. Thank you!

I´m 46 now. Seeing countless dead bodies being pushed into holes by bulldozers and learning about all the other cruelties at the age of 15/16 in school - at least for me - was a bit much. It was hard for me to understand, how anyone on the planet could have come to that point and at that age I obviously didn´t wanted to be filled with guilt/responsibility. So for sure, I can relate to people saying what you´re showing in this piece. On some point in my life, I was there too. On my first time I left the country with school to the UK, we were called Nazis by some other 17years olds natives in Hastings. It took years, decades to dive deeper into all these topics, watching hundreds of documentaries (because I wanted to know, because of my own curiosity, not a teacher putting that into five hours of history lessons at a time I wasn´t ready) to barely understand what happened, how it happened, how manipulation works, how easy it can be reproduced with todays media. It really needs sooo much more information about social behaviour, psychology to get an understanding. That also means to put things into perspective, understanding no matter how unique and perverted that event was, the mechanis that lead to that moment in history were used before and are still being used today and are not unique happening to germans only once in history. My biggest fear is, that people around the world keep thinking that they are immune and it could not happen again. While I it is happening right in front of them: In Hungary, Poland, Netherlands, France, Italy and also Germany. While Humanity is facing the biggest ecologic/financial/economic crisis created all by themselves, knowing that we cannot go on like we did the last 80 years (at least not killing each other most of the time was good but not enough), people start thinking that they are better on their own in nationlist constructs looking for easy answers to avoid changing anything or questioning themselves, they instead start questioning democracy. Exactly the opposite would be required, to combine our forces and strenghts while the solutions are already on the table. We don´t have to wait for some invention, we could start right now, we could have done so decades ago.

As a Korean, it is not my fault that my countrymen opposed (and indeed, still oppose to this day) the benevolent and rightful rule of the Eternal Leader, but it is my responsibility to ensure they do accept it.

Schultheiss is the beer with the taste for guys. At the end of a hot summer day I drink 50% Weiße and 50% Schultheiss.

I feel like Yoda every time my bf speaks German language

A quite significant amount of comments here make me wanna puke.

Before you talk about the guilt of the Germans, you should first "look at the dirt on your own doorstep"! The "Americans" stole "their" land from the natives! Indians were persecuted and killed because they wanted to defend their homeland/their country. The women were raped and the men were slaughtered! The Indians were then locked up in camps! Then came slavery and you "colonized" many countries, forced another faith on them, tortured them and punished them for violating it! Because the American government is megalomaniac, they claim that when you invade Arab countries, it is only to protect America... ... of course these countries are rich in natural resources, but is this supposedly pure coincidence!? The 2 atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima destroyed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of innocent people, and to this day there are still consequences of the atom there! Considering how many people have died (were slaughtered) at the hands of America, the Germans are true angels of innocence!!!

Michael Mittermeier is a moron and I despise him. What a stupid and cheap joke about his supposed overkill history lessons! I was born in Germany in 1967 and never had the opportunity to learn what my grandparents did during the Nazi era. Two were already dead when I was born, one was a Hungarian who emigrated to Australia after the war (without my mother and grandmother), and I only met him and the other grandmother once each before they died. My mother's foster father was the nicest person on planet earth and I more or less grew up with him too, as my stepfather was an asshole. My foster grandfather was a quarter-Jew and a musician who entertained the German troops during the war (and later the American occupying troops). That's all he told me. I don't know if he participated in atrocities, or if he voted for Hitler initially, but I doubt it because he was a weedy person of bad health and a staunch socialist - at least at his old age when I knew him. - So do I feel guilty? No. On the contrary, I am proud of my country for the good work it is doing in making amends and remembering this terrible period of our history. And I wish that other countries would also acknowledge their dark past and - together with us - work for a better future for all of humanity (and of course the animals/environment!!!). Edit: Was it a phenomenon that could only occur in Germany? - No, of course not. We see the fatal attraction of leader cults, excessive nationalism and/or religious/ideological fanaticism, all of which inevitably lead to fascism and totalitarianism and sooner or later to war and genocide, especially these days again in Russia, Turkey, Hungary, India and even in the USA, not to mention other places like Iran or North Korea, but unfortunately also here in Europe and even in Germany ...

I am an American ex-pat living in Germany since 1995 married to a wonderful German woman. My so-called heritage is German from the mid-1700's. For me the key issue is guilt vs. responsibility. Is my wife born in the '60s guilty of what took place 20 years before she was born - no. Is in incumbent upon her as a member of the post-war generation to be vigilant against its resurgence - yes. Am I, a white American, guilty of the sins of slavery that took place in the US over a hundred years ago - no. It is my responsibility to be vigilant against transgressions against the rights of all US citizens.

Wow. Really impressed. Forget about TV. Congrats and best from South Germany

Hey Nick, besuche doch mal Dinkelsbühl, Bad Wimpfen oder Miltenberg am Main

I completely agree with you that it's the responsibility of everyone in every nation to avoid that anything like that ever happens again.

It’s so simple. Because German people are honest and direct. Others observe secretly

Well, speaking as an Austrian covering WWII and German atrocities (including the crimes Austrians like Eichmann and Hitler committed) was not a thing in the 50s and 60s when my parents went to school but during the 70s and especially the 80s and 90s it became a huge thing. So if people think WWII and the German atrocities are not covered in education, I think they are either from an older generation or they don't realize that things have changed in Germany and Austria since their / their parents / their grandparents time.

Good point. I think we could all learn from each other

Ich freue mich sehr, dass du Deutschland schätzt, sogar die Tatsache, dass es am Sonntag nur halblebige Laugenstangen gibt. Die meisten Amerikaner sind hoffnungslos verwöhnt und verunstaltet - umso schöner, deine Wahrnehmung zu sehen. Willkommen!

My comment might not be read, since it’s way at the end, but nevertheless I want to convey my appreciation for the message you have so skillfully delivered in this video. I have been watching your videos for years, and have felt a deep connection to you since my sister lives in Portland, Oregon, and I visit her often. I also raised six children and my four boys were thoroughly involved in football with one continuing to play in college. I was born in 1948 in Germany, the daughter of a young American serviceman and a young German girl of 18. My father had fought in World War II in the Pacific theater, and was stationed in postwar Germany as the occupation began. Soon after I was born, my parents moved back to the United States, where my father stayed in the military, and with my mother staying behind in San Francisco with then two young children, my father was deployed to Korea for 13 months. My mother totally embraced the American culture never speaking German, dressing like a young American complete with rolled-up blue jeans, bobby-socks, and loafers, and learned to cook all of the standard American dishes. It wasn’t until later that she told me about instances where she was met with a great deal of prejudice because of her German heritage and accent. Nevertheless, my mother loved being a United States citizen, and talks about standing on the deck of the ship when they reached New York and my father, explaining to her, as he pointed out the Statue of Liberty, that here she was free to speak her mind. She could not, at that time, begin to understand the concept of liberty. And when she talked about it, her eyes would always fill with tears. Years later, when I was teaching, I asked her to come into my classroom to talk about growing up during the Third Reich. She said she could never do that, because of the guilt that she felt. I tried to explain that she was just a young girl, but she said that didn’t matter, that she was so ashamed of what her country had done. Later, I was able to convince her to make recordings of her memories, and added them to a presentation along with many black-and-white photos from her albums. She and all her siblings were forced to become members of the Hitler youth. She and her oldest brother attended the music Academy in Frankfurt, and she was there the night Frankfurt was bombed. She was able to escape climbing out of the basement over the bodies of her dead classmates, and wondered through the streets as a 15-year-old girl in shock until she found a streetcar that was still running that took her home in the small town nearby. Her oldest brother was drafted into the German army at the age of 17 towards the end of the war. He had been studying to be a symphony conductor, and was anything but a soldier, and he was soon captured and spent the remainder of the war in a Russian prison camp. Her youngest brother came to the United States to live with her where he joined the United States Air Force. After 35 years, he retired after two tours of duty in Vietnam. He, too, often talked about the guilt he felt over Germany. Even in her last years, living in Laurel Parc retirement home in Portland, Oregon, my mother was verbally assaulted by ladies who were English war brides, telling her that she had “bombed the hell out of them”. If you had known my mother, it would have broken your heart. She was the kindest, sweetest lady and had served almost 40 years as an army wife. Thankfully, she had enough American friends who stood by and helped her providing her support and counsel. I spent half of my life living near Frankfurt, where my father was stationed. I was fortunate because much of my mother‘s family were still living there, and we were able to learn German, and to fully immerse ourselves into the German culture. I refuse to be ashamed of my heritage, and I am proud of my family and my “second home“. Again, I want to thank you so much for this video. It warms my heart…

Jung was a Nazi himself, at least for a period.

I can say I don't use the word guild. The last person that had to get okay with their involvment where my grand parents. But like you said, I see it as a democratic duty and a responsebility to do my part so we stay on a better path.

Right now, the Russians invade a neighboring country and destroy everything they can. And the „German guilt“ has lead to the fact that German‘s chancellor is too cowardly to make the necessary decision and to deliver the necessary weapons so that Ukraine can defend itself! Let‘s see, whether there will also be a „Russian collective guilt“ one day. Probably not, unless Russia is defeated (as the Germans were).

I am a foreigner, married to a German, have two children and we are all live and work in the north of Germany. I am proud of the Germans. I have respect for the Germany, its people, culture and their way of doing things. I completely reject foreign views of Germany and its people that were taught in my school syllabus. The focus was on Germany, and so it today. In my view, materials that taught us about Germany were highly "selective" and put emphasis on the what the "Nazi past" (not all Germans in generic term), and what the Nazis did (Holocausts). There are more to Germany in history from the early ages to present day than the few years of Hitler's ruling. The world need to change itself! I have deep respect for Germany and its people, the country I call my homeland after moving here years ago.

Guilt? No, we don't feel guilt. But responsibility to not repeat things likes the Holocaust? Yes, very much. And I don't need to know your nationality to say that this should be your responsibility, too, regardless of the location. Edit: The part where you said many have told you they liked what you said about Germany: well, we just critizise a LOT. For example the train network. This mostly isn't about the history of our nation, but our very past, the time right now. I don't know if you know the saying 'Nicht gemeckert ist gelobt genug' which basically means 'Not critizising is enough praising'. And this really happens a lot. So every little positive bit will feel worth a lot more.

Dear Nalf, "Stolpersteine" does not mean stepping stones. It literally means tripping stones. They are supposed to stop people on their way and make them think and remember the past.