>>509027041Germans will probably cringe readying this, but I really do think Germany is a country that is uniquely special in a way no other modern country I can think of is; let me explain:
Pretty much every country has committed war crimes and/or atrocities at one point and Germany is no exception, but the ability of the German people to acknowledge that, make amends with their undesirable past, and work towards constructing a country of relative peace and prosperity in spite of that is astounding. Had Germany not beef utterly annihilated after WW2 it would have been easy to just reneg on such admissions of guilt or just pretend they didn’t happen like modern day Japan does with its atrocities in China/Korea, but the government has acknowledged these actions and its culture and people are the better for that. The honesty and humility in modern day German culture is something that Germans really aught to be proud of, ironically.