“Do you as Germans feel any guilt for what the Germans did?” he will ask them. They will go off into groups and have heated discussions among themselves, and then come back to him with their thoughts. “Yes, we are Germans, and Germans perpetrated this,” some students once told him, echoing what others have said. “And, though it wasn’t just Germans, it is the older Germans who were here who should feel guilt. We were not here. We ourselves did not do this. But we do feel that, as the younger generation, we should acknowledge and accept the responsibility. And for the generations that come after
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