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Hi GAmoore,

GAmoore@... wrote:

> Maybe it has to do with the fact that good followers are not always good
> leaders. Germans follow orders and learn their lessons. Brits and
> Americans question authority more. I don't know - maybe I'm stabbing in
> the dark here.

Hey, I'm the first to criticise the Germans - I'm German myself after all..., but in all honesty, Americans do not question authority any more than the
Germans. The Brits, yes, they have a history of 'disobeying the rules', especially during the Thatcher dictatorship era. There are few countries in the
world, however, in which people are more free-thinking than in Germany. Come and visit to find out....

> 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. Not all Germans were xenophobic or warmongers, and the same
thing goes for the Brits in this case. When the Beatles first came to Hamburg they were full of silly Nazi jokes (but not hatred), but soon learnt that the
people were completely different from what they expected, and subsequently had the time of their lives. They actually came back several times, and had
girlfriends over here. It's always the politicians that start wars and then make it hard to make up again. Normal people, and especially artists and
musicians, are different.

Cheers,

Recky

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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?
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>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.