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minus-squaremilicent_bystandr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·5 days agoDid fighting Nazis go out of fashion again?
minus-squareSoup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·5 days agoThe US was never really that against them. Their motivation in WW2 was not nearly as morally perfect as they like to pretend.
minus-squarelmfamao@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoBefore the war, Hitler was inspired by Jim Crow laws when creating the infamous Nuremberg Laws. After the war - once the US secured unipolar hegemony - they absorbed more than 1500 former SS scientists into the US government. Birds of a feather
minus-squareMaeve@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoImo the problem wasn’t in trying to rehabilitate, it was that it was insufficient.
minus-squareyet_another_commie@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoYour comment and your home instance blew my mind
minus-squareVenia Silente@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoI seem to remember the creator of Wolfenstein asking that question shortly before the release of one of their games, in the late 2000s I think. We should have seen the writing on the wall.
Did fighting Nazis go out of fashion again?
The US was never really that against them. Their motivation in WW2 was not nearly as morally perfect as they like to pretend.
Before the war, Hitler was inspired by Jim Crow laws when creating the infamous Nuremberg Laws.
After the war - once the US secured unipolar hegemony - they absorbed more than 1500 former SS scientists into the US government.
Birds of a feather
Imo the problem wasn’t in trying to rehabilitate, it was that it was insufficient.
Your comment and your home instance blew my mind
I seem to remember the creator of Wolfenstein asking that question shortly before the release of one of their games, in the late 2000s I think. We should have seen the writing on the wall.