@mira_is_psyched: Replying to @🙋♀️ 🇨🇾 🇪🇺 You’re right - Germany wasn’t bömbed into a democracy. If someone claims it was, show them this video :) #germany #germany🇩🇪 #germanytiktok #germanytiktok🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 #deutschland #deutschland🇩🇪 #deutschlandtiktok #deutschlandtiktok🇩🇪 #History #historytok #HistoryTime #culture #culturetiktok #europe #european #news #2025 #eurotok #worldtok #globaltok
The US needs vergangenheitsbewältigung. We never reckoned with slavery or the civil wear.
2025-06-25 12:32:58
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Patterson_6 :
Sooo Germany did the hard work while the US still white washed our history, especially around slavery. Without memory, there is no accountability!
2025-06-25 03:11:27
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BurntOutPua(she/her) :
Evidence that you cannot bomb a country into democracy was the post reconstruction, southern former confederacy states. Things continued to be incredibly unjust because the efforts to institutionally improve them were canceled.
2025-06-24 23:49:48
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user1703082769632 :
I'm not entirely convinced there was a metabolisation and acceptance of this guilt in enough of the society or for long enough period. maybe for a time but what I can see now is more symbolic and tokenistic and very liberal way of presenting and dealing with the history. even at dinner tables now the subject is awkward and avoided by many. we now that this guilt eats at Germany and is causing delusional decisions regarding the lastest Gcide that Germany is also a part of
2025-07-06 11:27:11
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Jen CAllen :
If we (in the US) had done this with slavery - we likely would not be where we are today.
2025-06-25 00:32:04
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Jocelyn 🇨🇦 :
It sounds like what we call in Canada Reconciliation. Something we are trying to do to grapple with the harms of our colonial past and present, and its impact on indigenous people.
Thank you for sharing your expertise with us. This is so relevant to what we are experiencing here in the US. Without accountability, we will never move forward, but, continue our slide backwards. Best wishes on your future endeavors
2025-06-25 00:14:26
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kellikater :
“That human dignity shall be inviolable”. That part stuck with me from your series on the German constitution.
2025-06-24 23:51:40
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Turin :
God. What a history lesson in just a few moments. Thank you.
2025-07-02 09:30:33
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Twistt :
I want to thank you for educating people on here god knows people need it. You are very good at formulating it
2025-06-25 01:34:28
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advanced.citizenship :
its confession and contrition every day for the rest of time. We did this, not others, what we did was horrific, and we did it, not others, we will never do this again and we will not participate with others doing this again. And in the final step, which is needed, we will participate with others who seek to stop others doing this and similar things. I don’t know when the final step will happen but I know exactly where I don’t want to be when it happens.
2025-06-25 22:35:12
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Kyle I, PhD 🇺🇦🕊️ :
thank you for sharing, for as much attention as WWII garners, this part of the history is much less considered and it helps to hear your insight.
2025-06-25 00:26:24
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HotNSteamyGoodness :
That’s why America is always having an identity crisis. We have NEVER did an autopsy on all of the atrocities of the original sin and birth of this nation. So it continues to so deal with the ramifications of White washing
2025-06-25 20:44:33
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Seth in Berlin :
I say that vergangenheitsbewältigung is an active process of remembering that requires constant renewal. Coming to terms with your past is a constant process of remembering and renewing your remembrance
2025-06-26 19:40:37
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Acerbitas :
Uneducated Americans think they “brought democracy” to Europe 🤡
2025-07-07 08:26:17
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Tim 🇪🇺🇩🇪 :
Very important content again! And especially that last point, this will and can never be finished. That's something that has to be taught and lived. A democracy without democratic people won't live very long. So it's our duty to keep remembering and striving to be better - which sometimes feels hard and as if it doesn't work. But democracy isn't easy.
2025-06-25 00:28:38
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Francis Murphy 🇬🇧 :
Not many country actually had a full reckoning and transformed itself as Germany had, Russia didn’t and look at them. Pity. Japan also didn’t go as far as Germany did, hence still affecting relations with China and Korea. Of course no country is perfect but this is a lesson here, country can indeed move forward if there were allowed a process to confront the ‘sins’ and then heal from it.
2025-06-25 00:28:49
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dalijare :
Thank you for sharing this. (completely unimportant, but that outfit is gorgeous!)
2025-06-25 00:49:24
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Mary Oh :
Meh. This is a very simplistic view. I’m very skeptical of a narrative that places (modern) Germany as a hero that rose from the rubble.
2025-06-26 14:46:31
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Vanessa :
Can u say more about the public institutionalization of shame? Is it exclusively centered on never again hurting Jewish people? I am not quite understanding how this “shame” is not there in the same way with Gaza currently, minus the direct history. What exactly stands in the way of this morality being activated today in regard to descendants of victims of German atrocities doing the same to another people?
2025-06-25 16:41:47
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karmickameleon :
How do you counter the AfD-led resurgence of proto-fascism in Germany?
2025-06-25 11:39:35
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Half An Unkindness 🆘🇺🇸 :
Germany builds monuments to its darkest moments. the USA pretends its own were triumphs.
2025-08-09 13:14:45
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mistybrady7 :
I don’t know how Germany did what’s it’s done. It’s remarkable. And then again when the wall came down. I would imagine that was a difficult reunion as well.
2025-06-25 10:18:06
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