Don’t forget Hans Speidel, an Axis general who betrayed the Chancellery only because it was screwing up the war effort (and not because it was committing atrocities). Coincidentally, both Speidel and Heusinger were involved in the Schnez Truppe, an illegal “secret army” set up in 1949 and composed of thousands of Wehrmacht and SS veteran officers.
Also coincidentally, for a while Ukrainian ultranationalists were happy to assist the western Axis when it invaded the U.S.S.R. in 1941. The Soviets suppressed, but did not successfully eliminate, the ultranationalists, who now hold substantial political power in modern Ukraine.
Poetic, isn’t it? The Axis and the Ukraine’s ultranationalists collaborated in the 1940s to conquer the Soviets. Now a terrorist organization cofounded by former Axis personnel, and the ultranationalists of modern Ukraine, want to collaborate today to subjugate or terrorize the Russian Federation.
I sometimes wonder if I’m spending my time poorly by studying old school fascism because it’s too historically specific. Then I find parallels like these today… maybe I should keep studying it.