3,060,000 German military personnel were taken prisoner by the USSR and that 1,094,250 died in captivity (549,360 from 1941 to April 1945; 542,911 from May 1945 to June 1950 and 1,979 from July 1950 to 1955)
"My innocent Aryan warriors"
Wehrmacht was not a Nazi organisation. Members were free to join the party but they were not under any obligation. The SS was an explicitly Nazi army but completely separate from the Wehrmacht.
Very cool clean Wehrmacht myth
Good to know world isnt a leftist echo chamber, you can share nazi propaganda too
Everybody that buys into the clean Wehrmacht myth is hoping that history is as kind to them with all their sins as they are to Nazi sympathizers. The even compare supporting the Nazis with supporting the invasion of Iraq. It's literally them just trying to not be remembered as bad people for all the horrible things they support/benefit from, when the much easier solution is to change beliefs to be better
a lesson that @7DeadlyFetishes@hexbear.net learned too late
Isn't that the guy who signed all of his posts? Lmao
I never understood if he was trying to build a brand or something but it was bad vibes
What is this, four-year-old Hexbear lore? I'm too lazy to look into who this character is myself, pls explain
7deadlyfetishes was a famous chapo subreddit users that migrated to hexbear, he would always sign his posts with his username, some years ago in a soldier struggle session about vietnam GIs he was defending them but then he bring up the SS and the concentration camp guards as examples of innocent people forced to fight (both were volunteer armies) and because of nazi apologia he was sitebanned and to this day he hasnt learned and claims he was on the right
On the right, all right.
Haw haw you replied that before I could
frequent chapo sub and later hexbear poster who signed all his posts, somehow wound up going all in on clean wehrmacht myth and got banned, brainworms have worsened on twitter
That's what got him taken down? Damn I remember loving his shitposting back on chapo, disappointing to hear
We now know one of the reasons nazis created the death camp industrial murder places was because their soldiers kept getting PTSD. Early in the Holocaust, they had troops shoot, stab, beat, and burn undesirables. Not only was this costly in terms of time and resources, suicides rates and alcohol use skyrocketed among the ranks carrying out these orders. Interviews with Holocaust perpetrators reveal they believed what they were doing was a necessary evil to eliminate judeo-bolshevism, but still left them feeling guilty.
It's no secret US veterans from Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the 2003 Iraq War had higher levels of PTSD compared to conflicts like Desert Storm and Somalia. I'm wondering now if it's because America fell into the same pitfalls as Nazi Germany regarding war crimes.