Do Germans and the Jews hate each other?

As this is a should question, you will likely get different answers.

Answer 1

Blanket hatred is never acceptable and never deserved. Especially as concerns the German people, there is no national group of which I am aware that has displayed more contrition for their historical genocidal acts than the Germans. Germany provides annual subsidies on products it trades with Israel, makes reparations payments to numerous Jews worldwide and has organized the most expansive program to adjudicate property claims, has built numerous museums to educate its citizens and foreign citizens as to what it did, and has consistently defended the historicity of the Holocaust against Deniers. In this regard, the German people could honestly do no more right than what they have. Additionally, almost 80% of Germans alive today were not alive during the Holocaust. Why should they bear responsibility and derision for what their parents or grandparents or great-grandparents may have done, even assuming that those ancestors performed criminal actions?

This does not mean that individual Germans who have chosen to support the Holocaust (i.e. justify it) or have issued vicious anti-Semitic statements should be immunized from criticism, hatred, and derision because of the kindheartedness of their German brothers. Rather, these individuals, such as those that identify as German Neo-Nazis should be reviled for the hatred they spew.