German collective guilt

For the debate about assigning responsibility to Germany for starting World War I, see War guilt question.

German collective guilt (German: Kollektivschuld) refers to the contentious notion of a shared, collective responsibility attributed to the German people as a whole for the perpetration of the Holocaust and other atrocities committed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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