Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America

[Rev. Rye]

The interesting difference between Germany and Japan for me is der Fragge, The Questionnaire, which sorted out the sheep from the goats. Japan didn't have that, because everybody was behind the Emperor, by a huge percentage. So Germans were separated into "good" and "bad", but not the Japanese. I think
that shows in the relative attitudes toward the war that we see today in the two countries.

It also doesn't help that the Denazification process took care to drum into the Germans speeches like this:

"You, who represent the fathers and brothers of German youth, see before your eyes some of the sons and daughters who bear the direct responsibility for this crime. They are a small portion only. Therefore, it is more than the human soul is able to bear. But who bears the real responsibility? You, who allowed your leader to carry out this horrible madness; you, who couldn't do enough for this degenerate triumph. You, who were a part of this camp..."

And they couldn't do this to the Japanese because it ran the risk of breaking ancestor-worship-related taboos (one of the most extreme taboos in their society, which was likely to just cause them to shut down and not care about whether or not their points were valid).