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[–] Joe_McCarthy ago  (edited ago)

Yeah, there was some Holocaust guilt tripping. I resist the notion it amounted to modern dimensions. I'm of the opinion the guilt tripping is mostly a German product. The WW2 generation in Germany mostly wanted to move on and not talk about it. The 68ers and after is where it intensified. German guilt also helps legitimize the ruling German elite. Otherwise Germans might see them as traitors and collaborators with the victorious powers.

The British didn't have any real choice in WW2. What would have been their position had Hitler achieved an empire from the Urals to the English Channel with all of the resources and ability to build armaments that would have entailed? The British Empire would have existed with the good will of Germany. And the homeland itself would have been subject to German diktats.