Germany is perfect

I heard an amazing account of a discussion between an American friend of mine and a lady who is a diplomat's wife, lives or lived in Canada and always defends Germany, possibly because she lived there. Her husband is of Arabic origin. She lived in Washington DC for a few years and has nothing but contempt for the African Americans in the US and claims that the crime rate of the US proves it is an evil horrible place. She claims that Germany is beyond reproach and is an example of a perfect society. She claims that Germany was a perfect country and that the United States screwed things up by getting involved with World War II and "ruined" Germany. (RUINED Germany??? The United States was one of the biggest investors in Germany before and after World War II. Many in the US were reluctant to go to war with Germany. At the outbreak of World War II, the US had the 23rd largest military in the world; it was not even in the top 10. Perhaps she would have rather lived under the heel of the Soviet Union, the way people in East Germany did? After betraying the Soviet Union and reneging on the 1939 Treaty of Nonaggression [which built on the 1922 Rapallo Treaty and 1926 Neutrality treaties between these nations] and slaughtering tens of millions of soldiers and civilians in the USSR, the Soviet Union was not particularly favorably disposed towards Germany, if I am not mistaken.)

This is beyond belief. Does no one remember World Wars I and II? Does no one remember the Holocaust? The Battle of Britain? The V2 terror weapons? Does no one remember the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, including Germany? Does no one remember what the US did in the Berlin Airlift to save Berlin? Does no one remember the Berlin Wall and the US contribution to the Cold War to bring about its fall and the reunification of Germany? Incredible. (World War I killed more than 20 million people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
World War II killed 72 million people; 61 million from the allies and 11 million from the axis powers, including about 7.5 million from Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
Even as a fraction of the population, Poland, the Soviet Union, Lithuania and Latvia suffered more deaths than Germany. However, these totals do not include the cold-blooded mechanized torture and murder of millions upon millions of Jews, Catholics, Slavs, Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma, and mentally and physically disabled. The extent of this horror and the society that gave rise to it cannot be understated. This woman puts herself in the category of the Holocaust Deniers and NeoNazi cretins by her statements. Shameful and atrocious. She has completely discredited herself. Everyone knows what sort of person she is from her hate-mongering and defense of these actions...)

This reminds me of the Serbians, many of who are still fuming that the US intervened to stop them from killing their neighbors, including the Muslim Bosnians and people in Kosovo, because the Europeans were not able to do it themselves and begged the US for help. I guess if your goal was to ethnically cleanse Europe of Jews and to take over the world in a racist totalitarian dictatorship, one might resent the US for stopping it. Yes, Nazi Germany was sure one of the shining examples of the best societies that humans have ever produced. Good heavens...what an attitude. How anyone would even dare to make these claims boggles the mind... On the other hand, it really is interesting to hear. One can learn a lot about people when you hear them unashamedly embrace these sorts of attitudes.

While my friend was trying to discuss her position with her, some "genius" kept kept yelling "who cares about statertiskits". Ah yes...makes for such a rational, reasonable discussion, doesn't it?