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  • ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Wow. I’m in awe. So now we can’t even call Nazis Racist🤦‍♂️ Fr tho, like can anyone explain to me why since last month people are sprouting up saying the SS weren’t Nazis? I’m not saying they’re right, but what grounds do they have to make this claim? It seems like if any group were explicitly Nazis it was certainly the SS right???

    • aleshasmiles@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      They are attempting to separate the SS from the official Third Reich by distinguishing as a paramilitary force distinct from the Wermacht. This is only true in the most technical superficial sense. In reality, the Wermacht were invading most of Europe while the SS were literally facilitating the holocaust in all occupied territories.

      • Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Even if we were to entertain that there were sections of the German military that weren't explicitly or consciously ideological, it doesn't change the fact that they are working overtime to defend a man who happily volunteered to massacre Jews, Roman's, and Soviet citizens and the Canadian politicians who celebrated him.

        • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Mussolini swore allegiance to Hitler during the creation of the Italian Social Republic. It was essentially a Nazi puppet state.

    • mayo_cider [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Because it's getting harder to ignore Ukraine's past and present, and libs see it as a propaganda win for Russia

    • JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      why since last month people are sprouting up saying the SS weren’t Nazis?

      Is this seriously a thing? (Not that I'd be surprised, unfortunately). I've heard lots of people try to exonerate the Wermacht, but the Clean SS argument is a new low.

      • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        I'm not sure about clean SS as a whole but a lot of people are trying to give the 14th Galician a clean slate.