Opinionated Germans & Kristallnacht

Today is the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht. If you don't know what that is you should ask for a refund of what you paid to get educated.

I know there were good Germans who did not like the Nazis. But the vast majority of Germans did like what Hitler was doing for them.

I've long thought the Germans got off way to easily for their bad behavior during the last century. Unlike what the U.S. did in Iraq in booting all Baathists from their jobs, after WWII the U.S. only chopped off the top of the Nazi hierarchy. I think thousands of Germans should have been held accountable at Nuremberg rather than the 100s who were and the even fewer who were executed for their crimes against humanity.

Here in Texas we regularly execute murderers who don't come close to the bad deeds of Nazis who were allowed to live.

It grates on me when I read that in all the world it is the Germans who currently have the lowest opinion of the United States and what they see as America's bad behavior. Unlike the Germans during the Nazi era the majority of Americans are as tired of George Bush and his inept government as the rest of the world. And unlike the Germans us Americans have taken care of our problem, it didn't require an invasion to topple our bad regime.

I don't think enough years have passed for Germans to mouth off about any other country. Germans should still be eternally grateful for how the rest of the world, particularly America, helped them recover after their country wreaked havoc on the world. Maybe in a thousand years it might be okay for a German to mouth off about America. Maybe.