i like to think in war if an enemy aids their enemy so they don’t completely die that’s great and all and it shows compassion. but that’s between them on the battlefield. maybe a news article of such at the time would aid in pushing towards an armistice, or help turn civilian sympathies away from jingoist warmongering.
but come on, we know canonizing this 70 years later is so far removed from the context that it’s about the ideological message: that americans and nazis were actually friendly, forced into a war by… communists I guess? or a baby george soros silently pulling the strings from his crib
modern “gigachad” ism of that one “good apple” nazi is used as a foil against antifascists and uhh you know, any other person who cares about human rights. oh look, nazis can’t be that bad, this one saved someone’s racist grandpa! an AMERICAN grandpa!
The guy wasn’t shy of bragging about kills either. He just did one good thing while being a Nazi in the Luftwaffe. It’s ‘Hitler loved animals’ levels of Nazi apologalia.
i like to think in war if an enemy aids their enemy so they don’t completely die that’s great and all and it shows compassion. but that’s between them on the battlefield. maybe a news article of such at the time would aid in pushing towards an armistice, or help turn civilian sympathies away from jingoist warmongering.
but come on, we know canonizing this 70 years later is so far removed from the context that it’s about the ideological message: that americans and nazis were actually friendly, forced into a war by… communists I guess? or a baby george soros silently pulling the strings from his crib
modern “gigachad” ism of that one “good apple” nazi is used as a foil against antifascists and uhh you know, any other person who cares about human rights. oh look, nazis can’t be that bad, this one saved someone’s racist grandpa! an AMERICAN grandpa!
The guy wasn’t shy of bragging about kills either. He just did one good thing while being a Nazi in the Luftwaffe. It’s ‘Hitler loved animals’ levels of Nazi apologalia.