World Cup 2006

[Elcoholic]

The French and the English are well known for not liking each other very much, I'm just surprised the same happens with the Dutch and the German. I actually thought you guys got along well, seeing as you are neighbouring countries. I suppose I'm being influenced by the fact that, despite a healthly bit of rivalry, we get along with the Spanish very well. But you know, WW2 ended more than 60 years ago which means the vast majority of the German population living nowadays had nothing to do with it. The way I see it, it's pointless to hold a grudge against people who were involved in it as much as you were. Knowing history is the best way not to repeat it but we can't let the past affect the present/future negatively.

You're right and it is changing, especially since this WC there has been alot of positive attention in our country for the Germans to change it. With football it will never change but that's just healthy rivalry.

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.