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: