• Swoosegoose [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Am I supposed to assume that just because someone was in a nazi division during ww2 that he committed atrocities like hitler?

      Yes

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      (Going to treat this comment like it isn’t bait so mods please don’t delete.)

      He wasn’t conscripted. This was a volunteer unit. Volunteering to fight on the side of the Nazis is not damning enough for you?

    • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      A literal Nazi soldier getting a standing ovation in parliament needs a bit more justification than "we can't prove for certain that he personally committed warcrimes."

        • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          Eventually all the crimes of the nazis will be piled onto Hitler himself, and people will say positive things about Himmler, and Goering, and Heydrich, and Goebbels, and hey, maybe we should've kept Donitz as the leader.

    • GaveUp [love/loves]
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      1 year ago

      that just because someone was in a nazi division during ww2 that he committed atrocities like hitler

      Hitler wasn't out there on the frontlines of the war as a one man army nor was he spending all his time kidnapping millions into camps. His soldiers did all of that

    • echognomics [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Hmm I wonder what's that loud beeping sound that I'm hearing... hitler-detector

    • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      If you start your argument with "Sure he was a nazi, but ..." then your argument is not as good as you think it is.

    • Kuori [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      nazi-sympathizers like you should face the same fate as this old piece of shit should - death by firing squad

    • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Technically Hitler didn't commit any atrocities to my knowledge. He ordered them. Which is bad. You shouldn't do that if you get the chance. It does however let us use the silly phrase, "he shot more civilians than hitler" how much do you think we should support someone who shot more civilians than hitler?