Mr. Hill suggests that German and other war guilt was a big factor.

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You go back to "All Quiet on the Western Front" -- we must have our guilt about war because we all share that -- we certainly share a guilt about war.

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She says she kept the letters hidden in a closet for so long after the war in order to spare her children the burden of growing up with guilt about their mother's Holocaust experiences.

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As the first post-war chancellor to have been brought up after the war (in which his father was killed), he is less burdened by feelings of national guilt.

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