Wolfgang:
I concure with your last statement about owning up to attrocities on both sides, as a Quaker, I never condone violence as a responce, one winds up doing precisely what the aggressor wants when you respond violently, HOWEVER..., that does not mean that there is not such a thing as overall responcibility which British posters overlook in this. For example, it was wrong wrong wrong, for members of the Jewish underground to seek to poison the German water supply in the aftermath - closing days, of the Nazi era. Does this mitagate the culpability of the Nazi party? Not at all. Britain clearly opressed the Irish people for centuries and to this day, many shirk the responcibility for making good on that history.
Cheers
(Back and well rested... for those visiting the US, GO to New Hope PA... great place to unwind!)
Larry