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  • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    The soviets beat the nazis. The Americans hung a few and brain drained the rest to Argentina/NATO/NASA/CIA/etc.

    The soviets beat the nazis, with the reluctant help of the Americans

    The Americans beat the nazis, with the reluctant help of the Soviets

    The Americans beat the nazis, the soviets just did human wave attacks and leeched off of lend-lease

    The Americans beat the nazis, the soviets helped the nazis

    The Americans beat the nazis, who were mostly resisting soviet oppression

    They were just following orders! We should have fought the soviets instead <- WE ARE HERE :reddit-logo:

    The holocaust didn't happen and America shouldn't have sided with the bad guys :reddit-logo: in 2 years

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Meeting a Nazi that made it out of prison:kombucha-disgust:

  • DumpsterDive [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    God fucking damn it, I knew what I was getting into but I forgot that people say that the USSR committed multiple ethnic cleansing campaigns. Fuck these people and fuck that website. The liberal conception of :freeze-peach: is completely non-functional if one has any interest in opposing fascism.

    Like, sitting idly by in Nazi Germany is one thing, but being a Wehrmacht soldier and engaging in combat is not justified even at gun point. There is no number of minorities that you are entitled to butcher to preserve your own life. Moreover, it wasn't at gun point! This asshole could have taken one on the chin and gone to prison and he would have been released much more quickly than he ended up being, all at the cost of not collaborating in the extermination of Slavs and Jews on the eastern front!

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      This asshole could have taken one on the chin and gone to prison

      Massacring civilians didn't even get you a prison sentence, the nazis knew not everyone is able to shoot unarmed people in the back and didn't ask that of common grunts. This is well documented. There was no pressure in that regard. You couldn't refuse getting drafted without getting jailed, but participating in the mass murders was a voluntary thing. The people who did that wanted to, every single one of them.

    • spring_rabbit [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Noooo you don't understand, if he didn't go do war crimes the government would kill him and his entire family. Because that was the standard nazi punishment for draft dodging.

      Several comments in the thread claiming that. Anything to clean up their nazi relatives I guess.

  • wombat [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    remember that IAmA post about the guy who had an SS grandpa and the comments were all "Thank you for your service!"

    • Puggo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      ummm that was actually a typo and OP meant to type Siberia which makes more sense because the evil communist Russians inhumanely imprisoned honorable, conscripted German soldiers for over 10 years for the crime of being forced to defend their country, which they did reluctantly and not because they shared any ideals of national SOCIALISM

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It makes it highly unlikely, in fact, seeing as how the Nazis murdered most of the German socialists

  • aFairlyLargeCat [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Going to have to criticise the USSR for not disposing of captured nazis responsibly.

    :pit:

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      This was actually a common thing. Lots of kids back then reacted like that when their Wehrmacht dads came back, growing up in Germany i've known a few people like that personally. Part of it was not recognizing that guy, part of it was how they came back from the war. Dehumanizing your soldiers is a huge factor in every military and that goes doubly for nazi germany. Being like that, having been made a killer just scares kids when they see you. An entire generation grew up with a monster in their household. A broken, tyrannical, bitter shell of a man sitting at their kitchen table. Domestic violence and psychological cruelty was very common in such families, it was a huge factor for the culture wars of the 1960s that were the closest thing to actual denazification this shithole has ever had.

      And ofc reddidiots see that husk, that ghoulish creation of the nazi war machine, they see the fear and terror in the little girl's eyes, and they immediately go "wholesome chungus 500 have some gold kind landser!" These fuckers can find some gold on the bottom of a pit:

      :pit: :gold-antifa:

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    ahh i see quite the swarm of Adjective-Noun-Four Random Digit usernames defending nazis

  • VILenin [he/him]M
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    2 years ago

    :pit: it's a disgrace he was ever allowed out