Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.51.53.50-20150415225527/@comment-26221483-20150419050501

And thus Geneva Conventions were born. Sigh..can we honestly blame either side for something which we didn't have any rules for at the time? Don't get me wrong, sins were commited on either side and the reasons for those sins are irrelevant as well as subjective. The fact remains that both sides did what they believed to be right regardless of whether or not it was wrong. I say we shouldn't condem people of today for sins of the past, but I don't (and Im concerned to say this) say we should deny them either. Assessing the severity of how bad something is, is subjective, and doesn't change that it was bad. WW2 was a really terrible time for the world but it happened, the things that happened in that time were even worse.

Severstal: The Germans aren't playing the "bow your head" game, they've looked back on their actions, even before the end of the war, and saw that what they were doing was pretty messed up, many of them felt that even before the war but if they said anything they "disappeared". They acknowledged that and for the most part I can say we've forgiven them < (At least I and many others have.) Up until recently I figured many Japanese and Americans have come to terms with the fact that it all was in the past. But I won't blame them for feeling the way they do, on either side. I personally won't blame anyone of today for things that happened back then, even if they feel those things were the right thing to do; it doesn't change that we all can't do them today.

If any Germans want to say otherwise, please do. The more honesty the better. (About my statement of the bowing thing...or if you want to support me...matters not.)