The Americans asked this question on a poster in Munich in May 1945. The first horrific reports about the liberated concentration camps were emerging.
The German Reich was defeated. The occupying powers – Great Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet Union – wanted the German people to recognise that they had been complicit in the Nazi crimes. In some places, they even forced Germans to look at mass graves. Did this lead people to gain insight or feel remorse?