Reply #10: I think the 'good German' slam, today, is inappropriate in many ways.

[pinto]

It is a vague, general, and broad brush typification that's rooted more in hyperbole than the facts of it all.

It obviously implies some level of acquiescence to genocide, which I think is another over-the-top assumption, in current political terms.

And it's a red herring.

Personally, I find the term troubling when used in the context of the tug-of-war that is American politics.

(aside) I know a real life 'good German'. She's a Schwabian, everyday people, her Dad was in the army. He was captured by the Russians on the Eastern front, he was never heard from again. She lost all her teeth as a child - no milk, no protein, no calcium.

*None of these folks* believed Hitler's line, in toto, yet they did what they did.

She still feels guilty for what her country's leaders did to the Jews and the world. She still wonders what happened to her Dad.