Patrick Moore attacks Germany he still hates it after 70 years
bryemycaz
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Is he out of order here?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2137652/Patrick-Moore-says-hates-Germans-70-years-Nazi-bomb-killed-fianc-e.html
Whilst I can understand his pain at loosing the love of his life, the germany of today bears no relevance of the Nazi Germany of the 1930s & 40s.
Of couse yes Neo Nazis and Hitler admiers are scum of the earth and should still be treated as such. However he does admit that there probably are some nice germans but he has never met any. (apart from members of the royal family:D)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2137652/Patrick-Moore-says-hates-Germans-70-years-Nazi-bomb-killed-fianc-e.html
Whilst I can understand his pain at loosing the love of his life, the germany of today bears no relevance of the Nazi Germany of the 1930s & 40s.
Of couse yes Neo Nazis and Hitler admiers are scum of the earth and should still be treated as such. However he does admit that there probably are some nice germans but he has never met any. (apart from members of the royal family:D)
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He has never got over losing his fiancee. He is on record as saying that "Sometimes I go as long as half an hour without thinking about her".
He's 89, cut him some slack. Phil the Greek says a lot worse and gets away with it..
You are right context is the thing. My grandad hated Earl Haig and would always bad mouth him as he felt that his idiotic war campaign took away his beloved brother.
Same with the people who sent their medals back after Mrs Thatcher went to Hirohito's funeral, these same people would never buy anything Japanese and would bad mouth them all the time.
I never understood why until I was much older and learned what he would have gone through as a prisoner of war. He never talked about it.
As a teen I bought a small Toshiba radio with money he gave me for my birthday and he was devastated.
Patrick Moore is entitled to his opinion just as anyone else is. Some elderly people cannot forget the past and how it has affected their lives. Sad as it is.
What annoys me is when my generation come with all the anti German sentiment.
Unless they show otherwise, the Germany of today should not be slated for the actions of people that were around 72 years ago.
It's not ignorance.
It's passion.
Very dangerous in this day and age, really can't be allowed.:rolleyes:
How would we be controlled by the elite, the politicians, if people actually felt things that cut through the mogadon effect of reality TV and the latest consumer must have.
Youngsters of the day
"Wuz a 4x?
Yes because those are definitely mutually exclusive.
".....won't give a f**k".
or
"....won't give a ****" if in polite company.
Youngsters of the day cut the credit chip out of MidnightFalcon's hand.
Patrick Moore said and I quote
‘The only good Kraut is a dead Kraut,’ the 89-year-old has declared in an interview to mark the 55th anniversary of his star-gazing TV show The Sky At Night."
He was did not clarify it was previous war criminals .Personally I find it deepy offensive , I have German family and being 89 is no excuse for a hate filled rant on a whole nation .,
Britain has history too and I would say the same about any one who ranted about the British nation like that over past crimes .
I didn't know about his lost love though and it seems he never got over that as he has remained a bachelor throughout his life.
Best known for his extraordinary knowledge of Astronomy he is also an expert xylophone player too.
Actually the full quote makes it clear the he does NOT distinguish between the past and the present
Bollox. If Patrick Moore was fronting current affairs or cultural programmes, you might have a point but he talks about astronomy, a subject on which he is an expert. His private views on Germany have nothing to do with it. The modern fashion for attacking personal beliefs just because they don't match this week's Guardian-approved zeitgeist is deplorable.
Well, he was around for two world wars against Germany, I suppose.
I can't get worried about it. A colleague of my Mother's, now dead, led a group of survivors out of a prison camp after the war. Most of them died on the way, he was very tall, and weighed six stone when they found help.
He didn't have a good word to say about them either.
I didn't argue.
I never said I agreed with him, simply that at his age I wouldn'd give a.......toss about what others think of my opinions.
Some scars never heal for the generations that carry them, thankfully subsequent generations move on (most of them anyway).
We didn't see what they saw. We are in no position to pass judgement.