You got many good stories, observations and reflections. I just hope you don’t become the kind of guy people stop listening to because you sound like a broken record. You cannot frame every single issue the same way. It is like Karl Marx, he had some great points about class struggle but then he tried to explain everything about history in terms of class struggle. The world simply isn’t that simple.

All I am saying is, don’t become that guy who thinks, every issue in the world can be explained in terms of “evil white” people. It is about as illuminating as people explaining crime in terms of “evil brown” people. People are more than their skin color.

I have seen how people in anger over an oppressor end up making exactly the same mistake as them. WW2 happened in large part due to German racism and ideas of ūbermensch and untermensch. After the war many children in my native Norway suffered abuse from being half-German. They had to pay for people’s anger about the past. These children got portrayed as mentally and morally deficient.

When my mother grew up, she did not know that Germans were people. They way grownups talked about Germans she thought they were a type of viscous animal.

I kept hearing when I grew up how Germans just had a natural inclination to rule and dominate. Anything a German did was always interpreted in terms of a perceived German desire to dominate. I know as a grownup this is just absolute bonkers and that Germans are some of the nicest people. Although I admit some of the stereotypes about German humor may be true 😁

My point is that, one cannot forever define Germans, by what their ancestors did. Nor did every ancestor participate in it. Many tried to fight the Nazis as well. What applies to Germans applies to all people.

Instead of singling out Germans as the problem we should single of the ideologies of Fascism and Nazis and those who follow them. Judge people by their character rather than their skin color.