November 9: A Day of Destiny? 

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Thank you for your comment. While you are right that Nazi rule did not last long compared to German history in general, the atrocieties committed were so large that they still revebrate today. "Moving on" is therefore only possible through remembrance. Edit: typo

Well, it has. A visit to West Germany in the 1970s and 80s would have seen British and American rock and pop acts entertaining the young denim-clad German youth. No doubt the Stones and Pink Floyd toured West Germany back then. Lead singer Mick Jagger’s father I think was in the first wave of British troops to hit the Normandy beaches on D-day, 6th June 1944, and was injured. And one of the Pink Floyd band members’ father was killed at Salerno when he was just a baby. Sure, the Beatles played Hamburg in 1961-2, as a resident club band. There’s a story that they stopped off at the British war memorial at Arnhem at that time, in Holland, where a large British military operation came a cropper in September of 1944. The band was on its way to or returning from Hamburg. A lot of just moving on at that time, before the internet and tiny, tyrannical screens in the palm of the hand telescoped the grim visuals of war, touched up in colour now, to make it all appear as if it were yesterday. The unfortunate result of WW2 in the palm of your hand, of the Nazis in colour, is that people forget those easy, breezier days of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. There were in-depth documentaries on television back then, notably the landmark tv series The World At War - and is still the greatest documentary ever made in my opinion (even though it could never be as comprehensive as a book). And people did increasingly both in Britain and Germany begin to question the war. And Nazi war criminals were being hunted down forty and fifty and sixty years ago. But it seems strange how digitised, miniaturised technology and the mass of stuff on it to do with WW2 can either lead to a dangerous and fanciful obsession with the Nazis on their rise to power, aided by colour, or that a teenager today can type in two seconds into his phone “Nazi WW2” and then up pops the colour visuals of Wehrmacht troops marching very martially indeed, and said teenager then shoves said phone into the face of a German exchange student, say, and shouts “Look at your county! Look at what became of you!” As if it was all just earlier in the week!! Back in 1973, you could not shove a heavy cathode ray tube TV set like that into another person’s face whom you wanted to hurt. The only TV in the house would have had the family watching, and war veteran father counselling his teenage son about the fact that there the Germans were (are) a good people, who perhaps should have known better but were led up the garden path by a significant number of Nazis. The 1966 World Cup Final staged at Wembley, London between West Germany and England I think was proof that no hard feelings remained: the anthems and German players were all very kindly treated and entertained. When Merkel was Chancellor, I bet not many young people outside Germany could have named a prior Chancellor anytime after 1945. We live in the hyper-present and it’s good to study the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s: a very interesting time as it was the Cold War. Also, when the Soviets blockaded West Berlin during the harsh winter of 1947, the great Berlin Airlift by American DC-3s, and by perhaps the British and French too, kept Berliners fed and warm. That action along with the Marshall Aid plan did encourage Germans all over West Germany to know that they were disdained. And knowing that, many let their hair down and lived, enjoyably. My big gripe now is that in our digital age, the airwaves are dominated by misery. As if we all ought to be guilty or apologetic. What is more important is acknowledgment of the truth of the past. In the old analogue age, light entertainment dominated the airwaves. I wish it still did.

@@DWHistoryandCulture yes, they still reverberate today. I don’t know how you cannot mention the events of Oct 7th in southern Israel: a Kristallnacht moment for Jewish people around the world in our visual, imagery-laden world today.

Well, you can celebrate the good and still acknowledge and learn from the bad, can't you? We all should study history more, not less. Not to beat ourselves up, but to always keep in mind, just how bad things can get very, very quickly, if good people don't speak up and defend freedom and democracy.

True, centuries of culture that most have overlooked because of more current events. All history must be passed on and not modified to fit any point of view or narrative. When I was in school they barely taught us anything.

Well, Hitler wasn't voted to become a dictator. He made himself dictator right after been voted as Chancelor. By blackmailing the parliament to give his party all the power.

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None of you (Israel /Palestinians) deserved to live in the holi land …Israel killed & is thirsty for more land …Hamas also killed & spread terror …. None of this groups have a moral ground ! .

We taught you then....we'll teach you again zionist.

Thanks for commenting. 100 years is not a long time, and the effects of the events are still felt today. So moving on is not really an option.

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Thanks for commenting. At 12:37 starts indeed the conclusion of the video. So, thanks for pointing that out again.

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They did learn. They learned from their history that when Jews suffer and are slaughtered much of the world is indifferent, and so they learned that they must do what they need to do to - even in the face of hysterical condemnation by people who turn a blind eye to the threats and atrocities committed against them - to protect the safety of their people and protect their country - their one and only refuge - from the prejudice and bigotry of a hostile world, which they have long had to endure.

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@@chrstopherblighton-sande2981 exactly …! ..remember the Warsaw uprising? They were considered terrorist by the Nazis ..because Jews were killed .& force to lived in ghettos under human living conditions .. …get it ? ..the narrative is the same w Palestine …75 year of the same

​@@chrstopherblighton-sande2981if europe stop oppressing jews, the country of israel wouldnt even need to exist. its all failure of europe society.

Free from Hamas and Antisemitism.

Free Palestine from Hamas

free Humanity from religious Fanatics & their drive to abuse believes for Atrocitys 🖖

This is not your moment. This day is about the Jews in Germany who were persecuted and killed.

@@brazendesigns remember the Warsaw ghetto uprising by the Jews ? they fought so well against the Nazi …for better living conditions & stop killing them …the Nazis considered them terrorist.