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This could go either way IMHO, on the one hand give the Germans credit for confronting the evils of their past, unlike the Japanese or the Turks who ignore, deny or omit responsibility for Nanking or the Armenians, it could as stated attract a neo-nazi presence, but like cockroaches isn't it better to see them?
To paraphrase Kit Cessna, the Europeans are not nearly the tolerant pacifists recent popular culture has led them to believe. A couple thousand years of constant bloody and in two cases global strife is hard to label as anachronism. This conduct isn't unique to Europe, however relatively the Third World doesn't seem to share these fanciful pacifist notions. Hopefully studying the lessons of their past both good and bad will lower the possibility of repeating it in a scenario similar to Bosnia.
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