This guy is about a year younger than me. His parents immigrated from Germany in the 1950s. They have 3 sons. Two of them are okay and have nothing to do with the third. They all had a good and prosperous childhood and the third went to university getting more than one degree. It was his parents who encouraged him to see Hitler as being a hero as they were taught that in the Hitler Youth (although the female organization was called different). Nobody did anything to the boys except their parents and they grew up middle class. The neighbours did nothing except being Slavic or non-white.
My father was in a slave labour camp, enduring the horrors of war, and scheduled for execution twice. He lucked out but was fucked up. He came to Canada where he was discriminated against. My childhood was harsh and poor but I didn't grow up to be the asshole terrorizing my neighbours. Too many excuses for the Germans like that. I have work colleagues and now even relatives in Germany and even they think this asshole is fucked up. Yah, causes and effects. I was taught to get beyond them and not use them as an excuse. Real people don't use those excuses, they strive to be good and do good.
