Today in 1933 Hitler became...and Turkish Gmuend

Today in 1933 Hitler became Chancellor. Quite a long time ago, yet there are many, many anti-Nazi memorials, museums, exhibitions and the like still being set up across Germany. What other country continues to apologize for its past? Does the U.S. acknowledge genocide against the Indians or slavery or Jim Crow, for instance?

I was at a job interview today at the American company which hired me as a freelance French/English interpreter last year in Chad to help out with their video work. During small talk beforehand the video guy on staff spoke of the town I live in. He said that his German wife and her family who live in the vicinity speak of it as Turkish Gmuend. I couldn't believe it and didn't know how to respond. What more inappropriate comment could have been asked? He says something completely racist against Turkish people and then expects me to treat him with respect? He is from Canada but holds dual citizenship, having also an American passport.