"It's time to get over the guilt and shame."

Who says?

According to Netscape News, a film that lampoons Jewish life in Germany is poised to win a number of German Film Prize awards. The film - ironically titled, "Alles auf Zucker" (Go for Zucker: An Unorthodox Comedy) is the latest attempt by Germans to remove the stigma of the Holocaust.

Director Danny Levy, the son of a Jewish woman who fled Germany in 1939, stated that "it's time to get over the guilt and shame."

Why?

Why should they? Why should the very people who murdered my grandfather's family, robbed me of my extended family and attempted to cease the possibility of my birth be allowed to "get over it?

Even when the last remaining victim of Nazi oppression - and the last living German who witnessed the brutality of that era - has died, the shame and guilt should still permeate the very fabric of German life.

How many of us have heard Santayana's famous quote ("Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it") and thought that it was brilliant?

So how can we sit and watch it happen?

Is it because Danny Levy is Jewish? Do we bend the rules because he's a "member of the tribe"?

I have some serious issues with Mr. Levy (least of all the name of the mythical family). But additionally, I have serious issues with a people that would honor a production that serves to alleviate the fully earned guilt it so rightfully deserved.

Unfortunately, My grandparent's families are unable to comment.

I'm not going to accuse every German of being a Nazi - or even an anti-Semite - but I do so strongly believe that the time to "get over it" has not yet arrived. Germany has made significant strides towards removing the stain of its history, but it's not for Germany to decide when it's time to "get over it."

When Germany (and people like Danny Levy- himself only a child of survivors) realizes that, the true healing can begin.