How CSI: NY made me cry tonight
Apr. 30th, 2009 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tj_teejayThis is kind of a downer, probably, but I just watched CSI: NY and it's the first time this show has made me cry. And a little ashamed of being German too. It was about Nazis and neo-Nazis, and about what happened in Hitler Germany. It's not like it's the first time I've seen a show or movie or coverage about it, of course, but somehow this one hit home.
I personally don't have any ties to the Nazis, at least not that I'm aware of. But thinking about how a nation can get this twisted and murder and torture so many people with full intent makes me sick to my stomach. It's even sadder to know that there's still people out there, all around the world, living the lie that Hitler tried to preach and teach. I don't understand how anyone can hate someone just because of their race or skin color. It's what you do that defines you, not what you look like.
I also know that our generation of Germans today isn't supposed to pay or feel guilty about what Hitler and his followers did. Still, it's a part of our history that I am not proud of. It's one of the reasons why Germans don't tend to be patriotic or, if they are, why they don't tend to show it in public. Seeing what "we" did to millions of Jews during the Third Reich makes it hard for me to feel proud to be German.
So here's to betterment and change of heart. May we all learn from history and see that it doesn't repeat itself.
I personally don't have any ties to the Nazis, at least not that I'm aware of. But thinking about how a nation can get this twisted and murder and torture so many people with full intent makes me sick to my stomach. It's even sadder to know that there's still people out there, all around the world, living the lie that Hitler tried to preach and teach. I don't understand how anyone can hate someone just because of their race or skin color. It's what you do that defines you, not what you look like.
I also know that our generation of Germans today isn't supposed to pay or feel guilty about what Hitler and his followers did. Still, it's a part of our history that I am not proud of. It's one of the reasons why Germans don't tend to be patriotic or, if they are, why they don't tend to show it in public. Seeing what "we" did to millions of Jews during the Third Reich makes it hard for me to feel proud to be German.
So here's to betterment and change of heart. May we all learn from history and see that it doesn't repeat itself.
