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Originally Posted by Hugh
It's been 73 years since the war ended - we really need to let it go.
Using the 2nd World War to pillory modern day Germans is like blaming modern day Brits for the Amritsar Massacres, the Boer concentration camps, the way we partitioned India, the Bengal Famine, and other less salubrious actions of the British Empire.
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Well yes they should. In this instance it’s jonbxx’s German friend who chose to characterise the UK’s current position by reference to “pre-1939”. Whether this is a widespread belief in Germany or just his own, it was his choice to liken today to the state of Europe in the 1930s. That being the case he really needs to drop any idea that there is any kind of equivalence between Germany then and the U.K. now.