Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and with that being said, I still say Germany got off way too easy. Sure 1 in 10 germans died, but I have zero sympathy for them, because they did start the whole mess. I don’t know the number, but I am guessing 1 in 10 english, canadian, american, polish, etc died in ww1 and ww2 as well. And “we” didn’t start it.

Feeling sympathy for Germany to me is the same as feeling sympathy for a bully. Someone that starts a fight, kills a bunch of weaker foes, then when a bigger foe appears and starts winning, we are supposed to forgive and forget?

It may sound cold, or not PC but that is how I feel. Same goes for Japan. A nation that tried to conquer all of Asia, and even after having 2 atomic bombs dropped on them, the war council of Japan was still “split” on whether or not to surrender. Not to mention, that on a personal level, the Japanese people, not just the soldiers, were involved with endless torture and the execution of our Canadian soldiers, for basically no other reason then they wanted to. And what really annoys me, is that in Japan, the atrocities of what Japan did to other nations was not taught in any school or university to the Japanese people until just in the last decade. How or why should we forgive a people who won’t even admit to the truth about what they did??

Do I hate civilians getting killed, and people suffering, of course I do. But when a nation is responsible for all of that suffering, I don’t think it is wrong to hate them for it. My hate, good or bad, is still there.