WWII, as it transpired in Europe, is presented in such simplistic terms. It was the bad guys, the Nazis, against the good guys, the Allies. Only one of the good guys, the Soviet Union, was busy racking up victims of its own, and continued to do so for a long time. There is little interest in that aspect of victimazation; it hardly ever gets mentioned.

Japan is reluctant about dealing with its past, too. Even the barest of admissions about war crimes is hard to get from them.

There is no shortage of victims in the world, only relatively few get acknowledgment or interest.

And Darfur still goes on.

A lot of companies in existence today profited from Nazi-links. Numerous German firms, of course, but also non-German ones such as IBM.

There is, however, a double standard at work here. How many Western firms profited from links with Stalin’s Russia?

Similarly, human rights groups are very efficient in tracking down and advocating global prosecution of right-wing dictators like Pinochet. Left-wing dictators like Castro are lionized (and the less colourful one-time Communist dictators of Eastern Europe…even the East Germans who ordered shoot-to-kill policies for those fleeing East Germany at the Berlin Wall…now live out their lives in happy retirement). Oddly, Europeans do not seem perturbed at these creatures living in their midst.