First of all: It's been more that 60 years since WW II, but never mind. :)
Germany is for me one of the very few examples of spreading democracy through a war (like it was/is planned in Iraq). The Nazis were dictators (and ***holes in my opinion) and America did the largest part to end the second world war. After that war, they helped to build a democracy in West Germany, that has worked quiet well. I don't think that Germany is a threat to anyone in the world anymore, which is a big thing. It is only logical that a democracy has an open market for books, and if a book is good it's gonna get translated sooner or later.
One of the biggest stars in comedy is jewish over here (Hugo Egon Balder, look him up with you don't believe me) and his show (Genial Daneben!) is a huge success. No one thinks: "Oww, we got to watch him and buy the DVDs, because we started both World Wars." Sure, you joked about that thing, but it would otherwise hurt me as a democraticly thinking German, who has never ever done anything "Nazi" (can't find a better way to put it), that people still think that way about Germany. It's way worse than the Lederhosen, Beer and Oktoberfest things ;).
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I wouldn't say...
First of all: It's been more that 60 years since WW II, but never mind. :)
Germany is for me one of the very few examples of spreading democracy through a war (like it was/is planned in Iraq). The Nazis were dictators (and ***holes in my opinion) and America did the largest part to end the second world war. After that war, they helped to build a democracy in West Germany, that has worked quiet well. I don't think that Germany is a threat to anyone in the world anymore, which is a big thing. It is only logical that a democracy has an open market for books, and if a book is good it's gonna get translated sooner or later.
One of the biggest stars in comedy is jewish over here (Hugo Egon Balder, look him up with you don't believe me) and his show (Genial Daneben!) is a huge success. No one thinks: "Oww, we got to watch him and buy the DVDs, because we started both World Wars." Sure, you joked about that thing, but it would otherwise hurt me as a democraticly thinking German, who has never ever done anything "Nazi" (can't find a better way to put it), that people still think that way about Germany. It's way worse than the Lederhosen, Beer and Oktoberfest things ;).