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Originally posted by Solid
Do you think they managed to get rid of Nazism in German society?
The current culture there as personally experienced seems to hint at denial more than acceptance and moving on and preventing a reccurance. The same culture, again in my personal experience, exists in Japan. I think the question of whether the attempts to remove Nazism and Jingoism from German and Japanese socieities were respectively successful will only be answered by history.
Solid
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I see a lot more acknoweledgement and acceptance from the Germans, who have Death Camps as reminders, to the Japanese, who are still in denial and have tried to portray themselves as victims.
The German history books cover Nazism and WWII as a bad period in their history, the Japanese would like to pretend that era of Imperialism and expansion never occurred, and seek to blame others.
FWIW, the atrocities they committed on civilians were just as bad, and with respect to US POWs, infinitely worse than the Nazis.
TR
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