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Germany’s guilt

By Noga Gur-Arieh

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/israelife/item/germanys_guilt_20120726

"Lately, more and more German citizens have decided, on their deathbeds, to dedicate their will to the state of Israel", said an article in the paper yesterday. In the past year, numerous German messengers knocked on the doors of Israeli Embassies, with wills signed by people who decided to give all their money to Israel. Some donations were modest, some contained millions of dollars. This is not a new fashion trend that struck Germany all of a sudden; this is a direct consequence of pure guilt. It's been almost 70 years since the war ended, and almost 80 years since the Jews were marked as the reason for Germany's financial problems and its loss in WW1. More and more Holocaust survivors pass away of old age, and with them, more and more German citizens, who knew and kept quiet.

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