I didn't realize it back then, but people in Germany (not right wingers, mostly conservatives) are telling each other Nazi propaganda all the time. I was at a hospital when I was around 15. My roommate was the same age but came from southern Germany.
He would tell me things link:
What happaned to Dresden was just as bad as the holocaust
The Red Army was more devastating for the people on their way than the Nazis
These are opinions that are basically main stream in Germany. Man, fuck this shithole country.
more devastating for the people on their way than the Nazis
Hey its not like they saw slavs as genetically inferior and planned to genocide the population of multiple large areas of eastern europe's population or anything. (Generalplan Ost)
That's, on the other hand, a fact, nobody (sane) in Germany would deny. This anti red army narrative is really important for conservatives. Whenever I say something about the red army, I always have to argue with them that "what the red army did to german civilians was basically genocide" is a myth. Of course, I'm not saying that war crimes didn't take place. War brings out the worst in people, communists are not exempt from that. However, Stalin gave clear orders to treat german soldiers like workers. They weren't responsible for the war in Stalins eyes. Again, of course things happened, but when this is the overall directive, it was never nearly as horrible as what the Nazi soldiers did on their ways.
I didn't realize it back then, but people in Germany (not right wingers, mostly conservatives) are telling each other Nazi propaganda all the time. I was at a hospital when I was around 15. My roommate was the same age but came from southern Germany. He would tell me things link:
These are opinions that are basically main stream in Germany. Man, fuck this shithole country.
Hey its not like they saw slavs as genetically inferior and planned to genocide the population of multiple large areas of eastern europe's population or anything. (Generalplan Ost)
That's, on the other hand, a fact, nobody (sane) in Germany would deny. This anti red army narrative is really important for conservatives. Whenever I say something about the red army, I always have to argue with them that "what the red army did to german civilians was basically genocide" is a myth. Of course, I'm not saying that war crimes didn't take place. War brings out the worst in people, communists are not exempt from that. However, Stalin gave clear orders to treat german soldiers like workers. They weren't responsible for the war in Stalins eyes. Again, of course things happened, but when this is the overall directive, it was never nearly as horrible as what the Nazi soldiers did on their ways.
the USSR should have wiped it clean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht