"G Farris" wrote in message
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I agree that Germany has done an excellent job of what must be a very
painful
exercise - ploughing through modern history to try to pull the lessons out
of
what would be so much easier to simply try to forget!

Something has amazed me in traveling in Germany - Turn on your hotel TV
at
night, and you're very likely to fall upon an episode of Hogan's Heros!
The
series seems to be popular there. I'm not sure what that really tells us,
but
it could be that they have come to terms with their own past to such an
extent
that they can share the ridicule their former adversaries made of them.

Germany is an example to the rest of us in how they have dealt with an
extremely painful (and recent) past.

It's been thirty years since I was there; do they show "Sophie's Choice" or
"Schindler's List"?