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To: elmatador who wrote (62009)	3/15/2010 2:48:13 PM
From: dybdahl	11 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 217862

Uh oh - the real story about the 1980s Germans is quite different. I spent most of my childhood in Germany during that time, and almost all adults had horrible stories from WW2 - either losing most of their family, having family members in KZ, or the big untold story: Being part of those millions that were forcefully moved after the end of WW2, in ways similar to the turkish genocide against the armenians, where most Germans died. My father was in diplomacy, and therefore I also met several other people, like the Israeli diplomat who had himself been in KZ in Germany (and liked Germans btw). Always remember that Hitler had a third of the population behind him, when things were best, and that Germans were really ashamed of WW2. As a child in the 1980s, I was constantly reminded of WW2, because every time we went to another European country, we should not talk, because if we talked German, or even English with German accent, we would have to pay to use free toilets, pay extra at the entrance to tourist destinations etc. My mother doesn't know English but knows German well, so she often got into trouble, especially in french-speaking countries. It was so unfair, but I quickly learned never to discuss WW2 because my German was too perfect, so everybody considered me to be German. One important story that is often forgotten, is that Denmark managed to get ALL our jews out of the country before the German occupational force could find them and arrest them. All of them. This was an extraordinary subversive and collaborative action, that took a few days, but what most people forget, was that the alert came from people in the German military, and that German patrol boats on the Danish/Swedish border were extremely inefficient at finding the transport. As one jew (current Israeli) put it: We were all quiet when we heard a patrol boat approaching the fishing boat. After a while with Germans talk outside, the hatch opened, and a German military officer looked down into the fishing boat, where we all sat, quietly. After looking a bit, he said "Ah, Fische" (meaning: Oh, fish!), closed the hatch, and the patrol boat disappeared. The fisher boat continued to Sweden, and the jews were saved. No jews were caught, and we're talking a lot of jews, who escaped, so this incident cannot have been the only one. This German officer is like the typical German that I know from my childhood. Currently the Greek financial crisis has resulted in having Greek newspapers describe Germans as nazis, because some German media has voiced the opinion that the Greek should work harder, so that they can pay back their financial debts. History sticks, so write it carefully.