No, regretted losing it, yes
2007-03-06 00:46:06
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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I'm German and I can't "regret starting world war 2" because I wasn't involved in it and was born almost four decades after it ended. I can only say that those who were responsible for the war did something very evil. I am aware of how much death and destruction the war brought, and I think that the majority of Germans would agree with me in this. And no, I do not regret that Germany lost the war!!! How could anyone wish that Nazi Germany had won World War II when we know what Germans did at that time and what plans the Nazis had ???? Even for Germany itself losing the war was the best thing that could happen to it once it had started. I mean Germany is a free and democratic country now, and otherwise we might still live under a Nazi rule. Directly after the war I am sure many Germans did regret that Germany had lost, but even then many were more happy about the fact that the war was over somehow than they were sad about it that they had lost.
2007-03-08 14:25:48
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answered by Elly 5
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No. They regret that the people who started World War II were Germans.
2007-03-06 09:08:10
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answered by John M 7
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The Germans probably regret starting war with their allies, the Russians during world war 2.
2007-03-06 08:52:07
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answered by miss bean 3
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Those Germans who did participate in war actions sure do regret beeing involved, they were victims too. Nazis will never regret that.
If you talk about young Germans: They do not see themself as war-starters anymore. Nothing to regret. The regretting days are over and Germany found a new way to deal with it.
It´s the same like in the USA where not every young american is blaming himself for killing millions of indians in old western times.
2007-03-06 09:49:48
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answered by kilian1000 2
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Yes, with a little bit of no.
What happened during the war was horrific. The regime that perpetrated the war was awful, beyond imagining almost. At the time this regime was placed into power, they did not appear to be Ultimate Evil that they ended up being. The people helped them get into power because they offered them what they were totally lacking...hope.
After the Treaty of Versailles, the punishments enacted on Germany nearly drove the country off the world stage...they were on the brink of total collapse, and if it had gone further would essentially have had to become a vassal state of one of the victorious powers...or fractured and absorbed by their neighbors, which may have been the goal of some of the victors of World War I.
Economy in ruins, people literally starving to death, their national identity teetering on the brink, their national ego destroyed by being defeated, and then humiliated...they had nothing. Along comes Hitler with a Big Plan, an ideology based on their Glorious History, and charisma in bucket loads.
With the Nazi war machine gearing up, the country suddenly had an economy. Of course, with an economy based on military strength, to keep that economy going, you have to invade other countries to plunder them and increase your resources, etc.
The ultimate conclusion to the war was another defeat. And a carving up of their country, divisions of family, and the importation of two rival ideologies in the former lands of Germany. That, and the glaring light cast upon the horrors that the Nazi regime enacted. So, so far, you have good, and then really bad.
However, as history progressed, the Allied conquerors in the West undertook to make West Germany into a modern democracy. Perhaps it was for selfish reasons to keep the Warsaw Pact at bay, and open new markets for products, but regardless, money was funneled into West Germany...investments were made that took the once again ruined economy and rebuilt it, the West recovered in magnificent style, thanks to a rebuiling program the likes never seen for a conquered enemy in all the history of man. So stunningly did they recover, that upon the collapse of the Soviet empire, the West was able to reunite with the East and even though East Germany was one of the poorest, most despoiled and exploited nations on the planet, together, the now reunited Germany seems to have been able to overcome this enonomic vacuum.
In less than one hundred years, Germany has gone from a twice-defeated imperialist autocracy to a burgeoning democratic nation with a world-power economy.
So yes, I would say they regret being beaten...they regret the actions taken by their leaders (and many countrymen) in their darkest hours, but in general, it worked out pretty good for them, so if they're at all realistic about it, it wasn't too bad an outcome.
2007-03-06 09:04:17
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answered by Leo 4
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I studied German History for one year under a professor from Austria. He said that his grandmother, who is still alive, loved Adolph Hitler, and is very sad that the Allies took over. She told him that things were wonderful under the tutelage of Hitler.
2007-03-09 19:00:30
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answered by Anonymous
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mmmm...your question envoked another in my mind along the same lines...If the Aust Govt had to apologise to the Aborigines for taking their children away, and the USA Govt had to apologise to the Indians, then why have the German Govt not apologised for the autrocities to hundreds of thousands during WW2...??? ( a lot of their own people died at their own hand) ....
2007-03-06 08:54:43
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answered by ozzy chik... 5
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Yes and some day MOST Americans will regret our invading Iraq.
2007-03-06 08:46:50
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answered by planksheer 7
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They definitely regret losing. Now they are so far left it makes me laugh.
2007-03-06 09:23:54
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answered by Anonymous
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i think they regret that it was started by germany but most people in germany were not even born them so they cant really be expected to regret it its not their fault.
2007-03-06 09:35:30
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answered by fiddich59 2
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