Germany’s Bild am Sonntag paper reported on Sunday, citing German intelligence, claimed that Assad did ntio give the order to gas children in Damascus. They report that Syrian brigade and division commanders had been asking the Presidential Palace to allow them to use chemical weapons for the last four-and-a-half months, according to radio messages intercepted by German spies, but permission had always been denied, the paper said.
There is an irony here. Germans at all levels tried to avid gult (Schuld) for the actions of WWII … blmang it on Hitler as if tyhe Feuher had personally gassed 8 million people. The same intelligence briefings reported interception of a phone call between a Hezbollah official and the Iranian Embassy in Damascus in which the official said Assad had ordered the attack.
“Schuld” means debt/fault/blame. if you are in debt / to blame (“schuldig”) you have to get … basically get out of it. so “ent-schuld-igen” is getting out of it. If you hit someone, you are to blame and you can’t get “entschuldigen” yourself, you have to ask for “Entschuldigung” (Noun, “um Entschuldigung bitten”). To some very very sensitive people it may appear rude to say “Entschuldigung.” (“Sorry”) to unblame yourself, instead of asking for it to the one who blames you. Most people don’t even notice the difference. In daily life, it doesn’t really matter.