"don't try to tell me I should be grateful to the USA for their eventual participation in the war in Europe."

What was that little line you threw into one of your posts about doing your research before posting, ah yes this one:

"Seems that you need a little more diligence in researching your responses, mate."

Sixty-four years back takes us to what point in time you prat, my arithmetic produces the year 1945, which would suggest I have been talking about the post-war era, which means that your feelings and opinions about the USA's entry and participation in the Second World War are irrelevant.

As far as the Second World War goes, had Japan not attacked the USA, yes Great Britian, her Empire and her Soviet allies would have eventually defeated the axis powers, but that would have been done at the cost of the loss of the whole of Europe to Soviet enslavement.

Psst your not the only person with German relations and friends and mine, tell a very different story to that of your Aunt, who as you left Germany in 1948, her views would seem to indicate that she rather enjoyed the "glory" years of the Third Reich.