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>  > Another thought which I find strange .... Paul McCartney was born during
>>  WWII and his father was a firefighter ... i guess after the Germans
>>  dropped bombs. But then when he was 17 or 18, he and the rest of the
>>  Beatles went to Germany and played in clubs. Isn't that a short time span
>>  for reconciliation?
>
>Reconciliation took place even before the Beatles went to Hamburg. 
>Remember, it wasn't the German people per se who singlehandedly 
>caused WWII. Germany was
>under dictatorship rule at the time and the whole world was gearing 
>up to start a major war.


??????

I don't know about other places but according to the history books 
I've read the US at least had increasingly isolationist policies and 
practically no arsenal up until about 1940.  The army was even 
training with wooden guns at that point.