NP Young Germans

[David Gentle]

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From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
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Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 12:46 PM
Subject: NP Young Germans


> Young Germans Ask: Thanks for What?
> By NINA BERNSTEIN
>
> "The idea that we have to be grateful to the Americans - why?" (...) "We
> have financed the gulf war. Why should we be grateful? Thirty thousand
> refugees have been bombed out in Dresden, so we have to be grateful? Why?"
> (...) documentaries shown almost nightly on German television in recent
> months are part of a lengthy national re-examination of the Allied air war.
> (...) The ritual evocation of America's role in World War II, instead of
> instilling gratitude, may reinforce a stereotype of a trigger-happy United
> States (...)
>
Maybe someone should tell the German kids that it was a British idea to bomb the cities of Germany.
The Americans only wanted to bomb targets of strategic military importance.

David Gentle