Friday, May 13, 2005

The unforgiven

There was a german movie released September last year. "DerUntergang" its called. The movie is about what happened to Hitler and, generally Berlin during the last 10 days of his life. According to movie review, this is the first german movie to potray Hitler, although the character was played by a swiss rather than a german.

It has been 60 years since WWII ended. The german and japanese appologised to the world on their crime against humanity times after times. Some sincere, some not so sincere. Some twisted the facts and some acknowledge the madness done by their previous generation.

The question is, should they be forgiven? Or should they be punish for things done by the previous generation? How long should they be punish? Or they must bear the name "war crime" till the end of time?

I don't know. I do not have the answer.

"In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy of war, is war itself."
- Executive Officer, onboard USS Alabama.

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