Yes, it would sound absolutely natural and fair, if a survivor talking about a concentration camp were to say:“The Germans did this to us”. And it would sound totally ridiculous to correct them like:“That’s racist! Not all Germans! You mean the Nazis did this!”. And yet, I’m absolutely certain some people would say exactly this.
One of my friend’s grandparents pretty much never forgave the Japanese(not just like fascists but as a whole) for their imperial days and I cant exactly blame them at all.
A lot of my older relatives are like this. Kinda hard to let go of things when you lose your brother in the Bataan Death March or watch Japanese soldiersremoved and behead all the women in your family while you were able to hide in a crawlspace because you were a little girl. The survivor’s guilt alone left people messed up for life. And no one wants to talk about if you were a “comfort woman.” It’s just too fucking awful to think about.
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The best response possible. Norm Finkelstein says more or less this. His parents hated Germans. Not Nazis. Germans.
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Yes, it would sound absolutely natural and fair, if a survivor talking about a concentration camp were to say:“The Germans did this to us”. And it would sound totally ridiculous to correct them like:“That’s racist! Not all Germans! You mean the Nazis did this!”. And yet, I’m absolutely certain some people would say exactly this.
One of my friend’s grandparents pretty much never forgave the Japanese(not just like fascists but as a whole) for their imperial days and I cant exactly blame them at all.
A lot of my older relatives are like this. Kinda hard to let go of things when you lose your brother in the Bataan Death March or watch Japanese soldiersremoved and behead all the women in your family while you were able to hide in a crawlspace because you were a little girl. The survivor’s guilt alone left people messed up for life. And no one wants to talk about if you were a “comfort woman.” It’s just too fucking awful to think about.
Like half of Britain didn’t even want to look at a German until the mid 1960s out of pure anger over WWII