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The idea that the German military was somehow separate and therefore immune from the moral fallout of Nazi atrocities is a right-wing myth. The separation of pa
by matt4077 8y ago
The idea that the German military was somehow separate and therefore immune from the moral fallout of Nazi atrocities is a right-wing myth. The separation of party and state was porous at best, and later dissolved completely. The military regularly cooperated in, for example, the holocaust, and often took the lead in other war crimes, such as multiple massacres in Italy, Greece, the balkans, and the Baltics.
- the_af 8y ago> The idea that the German military was somehow separate and therefore immune from the moral fallout of Nazi atrocities is a right-wing myth. Yes. It's a carefully devised myth and it even has a name: "the myth of the clean Wehrmacht" [1]. As if this wasn't bad enough, a particularly pernicious sub-myth of the "clean Wehrmacht" is the romantic rehabilitation of the Waffen-SS in popular culture, seen as elite professional soldiers fighting for the freedom of Europe or some garbage like that, often emphasizing and exaggerating their military exploits at the expense of their ideology and war crimes. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Wehrmacht https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Wehrmacht [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffen-SS_in_popular_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffen-SS_in_popular_culture