Oh please! The majority of Europeans don't feel any guilt for the holocaust. Why should they? It's akin to saying that all American school kids feel guilt for what the two nutters in Colombine did. Why should Europe feel guilty about what one country did, over 50 years ago when they obviously disagreed with that country enough to fight it.
A couple of points. First of all, i didn't say the "majority" of Europeans feel guilt of some sort for the Holocaust, i said many. Many != majority.
Secondly, the phenomenon i spoke of is hardly unique to Europe, or even some Europeans when talking about Israel and/or the Holocaust. It's a fairly common psychological defense mechanism which you see all over the place, even from those whom would seem to not have a need to utilize it.
I'll give you an example. In the U.S., i think it's safe to say that no current citizen was a slaveowner. The vast majority probably aren't even descendents of slaveowners, or Southerners, or really even indirectly tied to the slavery legacy in this country. Yet, there is a very real, distinct, and proper sense of shame that it occurred here. Ditto with quite a few people in Europe when it comes to the Holocaust. And both groups seem to be using the same sort of self-defense mechanism to help themselves deal with the cognitive dissonance caused by the feelings of guilt which the subject causes in them.
Let me give you an example. Okay, i'm sure you've heard someone chime in when the issue of slavery in the U.S. is being discussed with the (partially true) statement that certain African tribes and tribal leaders were an instrumental part in making the slave trade work. That sort of statement is made to deflect part of the blame from the slaveowners in the U.S. and Carribean, who were the primary ultimate "end consumers" of slaves as a commodity. In a way, it's a means of saying, "well, what we did was bad, but look at the ______ tribe, they had a part in the slave trade too, so they're just to blame as we were." It make the slaveowners any less responsible for their actions, but it helps the person making the statement to feel better by rationalizing away some of the culpability for what happened.
Now, make a few substitutions in the above scenario, and you can see the situation i described taking place. Substitute holocaust for slavery, jews for blacks, nazis for slaveowners. Viola. See how the rationalization works? I know you've seen it in action before, heck, plenty of Americans have demonstrated it here on this forum before, do you think that Europeans are somehow immune to it?