Convenient? How about "necessary to keep your head sane"?
Because the alternative is to be forever stuck on all possible grudges of yesteryear, never moving on.
Personally, I am not going to start hating random contemporary Germans only because Nazis killed three of my relatives 80 years ago and, well, burnt and pillaged their way across Central and Eastern Europe.
I just refuse to be a mindless slave to the past, whipped up by nationalist politicians, no matter how horrible that past was.
Because the alternative is to be forever stuck on all possible grudges of yesteryear, never moving on.
Personally, I am not going to start hating random contemporary Germans only because Nazis killed three of my relatives 80 years ago and, well, burnt and pillaged their way across Central and Eastern Europe.
I just refuse to be a mindless slave to the past, whipped up by nationalist politicians, no matter how horrible that past was.