• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Spoiler…
    They probably were.

    But to be fair, Germans took a lesson from history, at least in the west, in the east however, they covered it up. And so AfD grew from the east with the help of Putin and Trump.

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      Germans took a lesson from history

      Not really

      And DDR prosecuted and ran intensive denazification programmes

    • slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works
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      I just stayed in the east for a few days. Nazis are openly wearing their identifiers there. Saw a couple and instantly knew they were Nazis: Both in the same Lo-NS-dale jackets, boots, the guy with the classic short hair trim plus to make it obvious for even the dumbest person he had a belt striped horizontically in black white red.

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      I’m not sure that’s accurate. I mean, Heusinger, who was a high-ranking member of the Wehrmacht, was later a West German general, and a Chairman at NATO. Definitely striking, but not the only similar example. Denazification was woefully incomplete.

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        Just being part of the Wehrmacht doesn’t automatically make you guilty.
        You also can’t put everybody in prison for being a member of the Nazi party.
        To exaggerate it a bit, it sounds like you think genocide against Germany was the only moral response, but that is of course not at all moral, and would make the allied forces worse than the Nazis.

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          Genocide? It feels like you’re making a few leaps of logic there.

          Either way, if they were a high ranking military commander in nazi Germany, they likely didn’t get there by being nice and virtuous. To place them in another centre of power seems a little odd, at the very least.

    • varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 days ago

      Yeah, found both my grandparents who said they didn’t know anything and were afraid to act back then.

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    9 days ago

    Something like this may be handy when MAGA’s start taking off their hats and peeling off the bumper-stickers.

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      9 days ago

      They really aren’t hard to identify. Perhaps they can be a little hard to distinguish from nonvoters in some cases. But otherwise they reek of ignorance, arrogance, and confident incompetence.

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    9 days ago

    Found some where last name and city name matched, but asked my mom to narrow down the search.

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    Does it account for all the Nazis that existed after and still exist there today?

    Do I have to link the song? Fine. I’ll link the song. I want to hear it anyway.

    https://youtu.be/OLkPwxcIji0

    Edit: Not picking on Germans. America is really at fault for protecting them after WW2.

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        Might want to use a proper noun to start your first sentence. Removes the ambiguity when there are different “those” you could be referring to.