I don't know if personal guilt or shame is the correct feeling either, but I also don't think OP should feel nothing. Time and entropy (empires dissolving or p

I don't know if personal guilt or shame is the correct feeling either, but I also don't think OP should feel nothing. Time and entropy (empires dissolving or population groups migrating) definitely diffuse the responsibility for a horrific act. Of which there are many in history. But this specific thing happened in living memory, was performed by an organization that still exists (a German speaking nation state, with almost the same borders as before), and by people the OP knows personally. In fact, it's a very wealthy nation that OP has gained a lot of advantage from living in. It's subjective and graduated, but I don't think it's been nearly "long" enough that the Holocaust just background noise next to all other events that have happened in human history. Modern Germany is awesome btw. Really respect how they've reckoned with this awful time in their history.