Well I just wonder when people say "we owe them so much", what is it we owe them?

So let's start from an obvious point, those of Jewish ethnicity could have some weight to a claim that they owe them their lives. Having said that how much would the rest of us know about it? The death camps were only revealed to us after the invasion forces had landed so we could perhaps have lived in sweet ignorance.

We could look at the common premise that "We'd all be speaking German". Is this really the case? What evidence is there for this?

We could be living as happy German subjects with little or no thoughts regarding "perhaps we should have put up a fight."

Maybe the Germans would have got fed up and buggered off like the Romans did. Maybe Russia would have eventually taken over Europe and we'd be speaking Russian.

So what is it we owe to those who gave so much?