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Should the weight of a family's awful past be passed along to its future generations?
I don't think one generation should be prosecuted for what the previous generation did. Unless the current generation sympathizes with the ideals and beliefs of the previous generation. I'm absolutely sure that Hoess, the little boy, is not a nazi. Sure it eats him up inside that his grandfather was a nazi but it shouldn't. Because he didn't do anything wrong. Now if his father raised him up antisemitist then he should be prosecuted. Only if he couldn't be changed.
ReplyDeleteNo a further generation should not be prosecuted for what past one's did. This only applies if you are a grandson of that person. You were and are not that person. You weren't even capable of thought at that time. If you do believe that someone should be punished for what their ancestor did you are an idiot. The child Hoess' grandfather was horrible no doubt, but it's not like Hoess the younger did all of those things. You should acknowledge the past and try to appease the offended if all else fails.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that people should be prosecuted because of what their ancestors did. Rainer Hoess held accountable for crimes of his grandfather (The gardener at his boarding school, an Auschwitz survivor, beat him black and blue after hearing he was the grandson of Rudolf Hoess, commandant of the death camp synonymous with the Holocaust.)
ReplyDeleteIt was wrong for people to charge him with crimes but even worse for him to feel terrible about what his grandfather did. All the children of the Nazi's feel great pain because of what their ancestor did.