Though I was born in America and are technically a native, I have no native blood. When I say that, I mean that I am 0% Native American. My bloodline is 100% European. I'm an ethnic pie chart. I am German, Prussian (on my dad's side), French, French Canadian, Swiss, English, Danish, and a drop Irish.
I only know the percent of the Irish decent and the German decent. I'm more than half German.
I'm very interested in the World Wars, especially WW2. This is where my question lies.
Like I said, I have an interest in WW2, the thing is, I feel almost guilty. When I was in sixth grade, we read "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas". I remember growing so close to the main character and the poor boy in the concentration camp. My teacher even told my mom at conferences that I cried while we read the book because, and I quote, "It's not fair".
Even before this incident, my German heritage has caused something. When I was seven, I was telling my friends about my whole pie chart thing. When I said I was more than half German, my Jewish classmate called me a Nazi. (His mother found out about the whole thing and she was not happy that he called me that.)
When I tell some people about how awful I feel about what happened, they ask me why. They say, "You aren't Jewish, why does it make you feel so upset?".
There are even some people in this world who blame all German, even those of German decent for what happened in WW2. Luckily, I haven't met them.
Is it wrong for me to feel so horrible about it when it wasn't my group that was being oppressed?
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