What do present day Germans think of hitler and the holocaust?
You might be mistaking, the explanations they have given you, for what happened, as defence of the Nazis. A lot of people like you come to this topic with prejudiced minds and pick up on something that is not there, because that is how they want to see the world. Whilst there were many atrocities committed by Germans during the Nazi period, the majority of today’s Germans regrets this very much. Most people when asked about the topic feel very uncomfortable to talk about it. Teenagers are taught about the entire sordid details at school from the age of 12-18 every year for several weeks, they are shown the death camp films and all the horror. They are taught the WW1, treaty of Versaille, Weimar Republik, how Hitler came to power, the enabling act, the Reichstags fire, the Kristall Nacht, the progroms, the ghettos, the killings, the experiments on live humans, the gas chambers, the mountains of hair, shoes, gold teeth, the glasses, the suitcases – the entire horror that was committed in
