The AP via MyWay Germany unveils haunting memorial to murdered Jews

"You can argue with how they went about it, but no other country has erected a monument to its misdeeds. It's courageous," said Michael Cullen, a Berlin-based U.S. architectural historian who has written extensively about it.

He thinks the nation of Germany committed misdeeds during World War II when clearly only a movement of individuals did.

He thinks the nation of Germany is atoning for the Holocaust when the only ones who ought to apologize today for that senseless slaughter are those who participated in it.

It may be carelessness, but it means something. If "Germany" must apologize for Hitler, it means German Jews, dissidents, and saboteurs must apologize as well. If "Germany" must apologize, it means citizens who weren't even alive at that time should apologize.

The people that made up the Nazi government were responsible for the overwhelming aggression against non-Aryans and they are either gone or in their final years. I see no justice in making others rhetorically responsible for what they did.