World Cup 2006

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But a large part of our history lessons at school are about ww2 (and ww1) and you automatically grow up learning Germans are bad people. They don't mean to teach us that but when you have 2 world wars started by the same country its hard to think they're nice when you are young.

with a little bit of research they find out that a now defunct entity known as the Austro-Hungarian empire declared war on Serbia after one of their nationals assassinated a one Archduke Ferdinand.

No need for research, that's a well known event. I at least heard about it in school over and over again (much to my demise because although I love History I'm not particularly fond of 20th century history).

Anyway, regardless of what we were taught when we were young we are adults now and we ought to know better. 'Ostracizing' an entire population for something it's ancestors did is more serious then we might think at first and it's definitely not the way to avoid history from repeating itself.
If we're going to hate the German for something they did in the past then we might as well hate the Italians because they were once the Roman Empire.