How did common German people re assimilate in Europe after WW2?

Do people re assimilate after being in a cult?

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Were German people shunned for a long time after this by other nations?

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Depends on where in Germany they were:



The Russians were muthafrickas to them, the French less so, us (the US) and the UK were pretty human(e). to them.

Interesting topic for sure.

A lot of them moved out of Germany to start anew and changed their names to get rid of the stigma. I know my family roots did so on my paternal grandmother's side of the family although they were also half Russian.

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Was there little issue with putting the past behind each other?

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Yeah, it was a pretty big fricking issue:



Honestly, the Berlin Wall is all the proof we need that Communists should never stop apologizing for their atrocities. Even taking the ideology out of it, if you were an alien observing that everyone from Spot B was dying (quite literally) to get over to Spot A, and 20 years before they were all one people, you’d conclude Spot A was morally superior.

Also we need to keep in mind that the Western Front was a much more gentlemanly war than the Eastern Front was. Save for the Jews and Communists, the Nazis weren’t doing mass atrocities across France. The Nazis at least thought of the French and Dutch as humans deserving to be treated with some respect.

The Eastern Front was a completely different ball game. Villages razed nonstop, mass rape and murder, mass starvation on both sides, literal crucifixions, babies brains being bashed in being the standard, and pretty much any attrocity that you can imagine. The Germans better thank their lucky balls that the other allies arrived in Berlin around the same Russians, because they’d have followed the same fate as Nanking if the Russians arrived a month before everyone else.

An underrated place to travel back in time would be one month before Berlin fell. That would be interesting, since there was no where to go and everyone thought that they’d all be raped and killed in a month. It’s as close as a major modern city got to experience some sort of melancholic apocalypse slowly inching its way towards them. What happened to Berlin was the average Berliner’s most optimistic Best Case Scenario.

We needed the Germans on our side to oppose the Soviet Union, so we played nice with them (at least the ones we had control over). Besides, many were homeless, starving, etc. so we took care of them. We also learned a lesson from the first war - if you kick the ever living shite out of them while they are down, they can rise up stronger than ever.

As far as the civilians in the United States, I don't know. Millions of Americans are of German heritage, but they may have resolved that with "my Germans are not those Germans."

Remember what Churchill said in his history of the Second World War:

“In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.”

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An underrated place to travel back in time would be one month before Berlin fell

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Would probably be last on my places of wanting to time travel to.

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Do people re assimilate after being in a cult?

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theres a world of difference between a NAZI and the rest of the German People......It was not a 100% kool-aid drinking nation....but the struggle before,during and after the war was real

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Flight and Expulsion of ethnic Germans from 1946 to 1950

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My wife's (no pics) grandparents were Swabian Germans who lived in Yugoslavia long before the war. They ended up in Tito's concentration camps for two years after the war for no other reason than their German heritage.