Are WW II Germans unjustly judged?
QUESTION: Masters, the Second World War has been the subject of many films and history books teach us that during this dark period, 6 000 000 Jews died. Since I train myself to take two steps back, and watch the events, I thought to ask this: Do we judge the Germans more severely than would be justified? Were they really so cruel, as we are taught? ~Juha, Finland
ANSWER: Why is it you take two steps back to analyze what society does with negativity in the third-dimensional world? We give information here on spiritual awareness: striving to reach the point in human life where you are able to shun all ego judgment and merely evaluate whether or not the activity of the rest of the world is something in which you want to participate. Can you learn anything by repeating what society has decided is right? In spiritual growth nothing is right or wrong.
Your inquiry implies that you question the societal majority’s judgment that the Germans were bad, and are uncertain whether you should also believe it. Freedom of choice is the way souls learn their lessons on planet Earth. Behavior is guided by the belief systems one accepts. You can side with the majority or decide for yourself if it makes any difference in the way you live your life.
Human history also reports the treatment that the Japanese inflicted on prisoners during the same war. Other despotic leaders had similar or worse records from their ruling techniques: Mao Tse-tung, 23 to 30 million Chinese dead; Stalin, 20 million Russians; Pol Pot, 1 to 2 million in his killing fields; and Idi Amin, an ethnic cleansing of 300,000 of his own people.
The accepted ideologies of these leaders and their peoples are what have been condemned. Remember, all the participants agreed to what occurred. To carry a condemnation beyond the ones who perpetrated the events is something the egotists feel is their right. Decide whether you need to join the group or just sit back and observe if you can learn anything from the behavior.