This month’s issue of the Atlantic Times, an English Language monthly newspaper from Germany, has a thought provoking article about WWII and Germans issues dealing with a Nazi past.
It is a highly complex and charged issue and my thoughts on the idea of “collective guilt” or “collective shame” have fluctuated over the many years I’ve been associated with Germany. Even still, I’m always nervous about bringing it for fear of being misunderstood.
The author of the article, Uwe Siemon-Netto, should be commended for writing about such a hard topic.