This reminds me of the Romanian neofascist on Reddit who seriously argues that the Third Reich was ‘antifa’ because the Reich lethally purged some self‐identified fascists in 1934. Everything that you learned is immediately invalidated by that. Anticommie infighting = antifascism. If that won’t convince, I don’t know what will convince you!
Honestly, wouldn’t that label technically work for Oscar Schindler? He was a proud member of the Nazi party and a war profiteer (both initially) who slowly became more and more disgusted with his own actions, the actions of his country, fascism, and the horrifying depth of human depravity that as the Holocaust. He threw everything away with his repentance and becoming a savior and anti-fascist, and his sabotage along with the lives he directly saved probably amount to tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people despite being a Nazi in paperwork.
It was more so he wouldn’t lose his job at first, and later it was for appearances so he wouldn’t be executed for his actions, but he never did get to rescind his Nazi Party membership before the war ended.
Idk the full history, but I feel like at that point he’d be a Nazi in name only rather than an actual Nazi.
I’m surprised none of the Gestapos ever figured out he’s been doing Anti-Nazi shit while still pretending to be a Nazi. I thought having spies all over the Reich and Antifascists under the reich getting caught were common.
Of course, there came a time he crossed the moral event horizon and was a Nazi in name only. If you reach the point in your life where you have done so much to save tens of thousands from death camps, that those people collect the few gold teeth they have in order to make you a ring inscribed with a line from the Torah so you don’t forget the lives you’ve saved? You are no Nazi anymore. He also refused any war reparations or donations for his actions, and lived a simple small life advocating against Nazism till his death. In comparison to his decadent, wealthy, and pro fascistic life before the war.
Also they did figure it out, that’s how he lost pretty much everything. He gave essentially every last penny of his fortune and anything valuable away in order to bribe SS officers, Gestapo investigators, and high ranking Nazi officials to avoid execution and get them to send him more people to “work” in his factories. Greed is a powerful motivator to keep your mouth shut.
His sabotage was also difficult to detect as well, since one example was that his factories would create a significant amount of “dead shells” that could still be fired perfectly fine by artillery, tanks, and planes, but the explosive head would be rendered inert and harmless. Something that’s completely undetectable unless you take the shell apart and anyways, how do you know which shell is Schindler’s when it’s mixed in with all the others?