Some 60 percent of Germans surveyed feel neither guilty nor responsible for the Holocaust, and 45 percent said they are tired of being confronted with the Nazi past, according to a new poll. The survey, published in Der Spiegel magazine, also had 28 percent saying Hitler would have been a great statesman had he not instigated World War II and the Holocaust.
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