Last year some attempts were made by the Dutch government to create kind of a bond between Dutch and Germans, to decrease our antipathy for the Germans. They did this with tv spots and also tried to commit the media (tv, papers) to the case. This was all done esp. during the World Soccer tournament in Germany. I guess that has helped? <g>

Personally, generally speaking, I think the Germans are okay these days. Adenauer has done a great job. The way he has reformed Germany is a successful example of reform. What we currently see in e.g. Iraq is a bad example of attempts to reform.

>This is very interesting (your discussion with Peter) because from what I observed, most older folks in Netherlands around the mid 80s were very very very unfriendly (and sometimes downright rude) towards Germans when they visited Netherlands.

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>>>>Japan was never occupied... They were forced to surrender. As for defeating the germans, they were defeated by a number of nations (e.g. UK, Canada, US AND Red Army), of which the red army might have been the sole cause for losing the war. If Germany had not had to fight on two different fronts, the outcome could have been way different and I'd been speaking german right now.
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>>>What's wrong with German?
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>>Not much with the language, but givin the reason why and your jewish background, you might not even been born...
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>>>Oh, I now know. It are all those naamvallen. How do they call that in German and English? :)
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>>I absolutely have no idea, and to be honest I even don't want to know. At highschool I only had about 1/2 year of german and I must say I don't regret it.
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>>Walter,