'A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased'

'A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased'

This quotation talks about how Germany is still associated with the horrors of the Holocaust that took part in the 1930s even though it has been around 80 years that has gone by. Germany still holds the guilt and shame of the Holocaust even though it was the Nazi Party who performed these actions and they are now far gone. In my opinion, I think this is unfair as the Nazi Party doesn't mean Germany as a whole but a group of people that were led by Adolf Hitler. And this genocide was due to the ideology of a perfect Aryan race. Although the Nazi Party doesn't mean Germany as a whole, the extent to how morbid the actions were provokes an immense revolted reaction. This amplified reaction makes the judgement blur to blaming it on the country as a whole. The people of the world then raise the blame onto Germany as a whole when they are outraged by the actions when they should still know that the blame is placed on the Nazi party not on Germany.

When hearing about the medical experiments, the cruel beatings, executions and the discrimination or just watching Holocaust films like Schindler's List or The Pianist, our hatred for this movement is amplified therefore (with fury) our outrage causes us to blame Germany as a whole. This is unfair as not only isn't it this generation of German peoples' fault but it's not even all of the generation before them.

When someone announces that they are German, it is very common that the Nazi/Hitler/Holocaust jokes come to mind. This is greatly unfair as it's not something that Germans are proud about and they may even be sensitive about it.