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Is woke-washing the Nazis a thing now? “soldier collected ancient coins as a hobby or perhaps exchanged or acquired them during his military movements” is an i
by BenFranklin100 2y ago
Is woke-washing the Nazis a thing now?
“soldier collected ancient coins as a hobby or perhaps exchanged or acquired them during his military movements” is an interesting way to describe stolen war goods.
- InDubioProRubio 2y agoIf social reality is a fabric not giving in, and instead your story starts collapsing in on itself, you can always try to edit reality out of history.
- BenFranklin100 2y agoI have no idea what this means and I’m not sure you do either.
- mossTechnician 2y agoI don't know if it's applicable here, but the title reminded me of how TikTok and YouTube encourage users to use innuendos for things - another well-known one is "unalive" in place of "murder" or "kill." And it's actually entering our lexicon. This isn't intended to be a dig at the archaeology blog (pun intended) but it's just something that reminded me of this shift.
- HPsquared 2y agoI suppose archaeologists strive to stick to the evidence and avoid presumptions.
- heysammy 2y agoIt is for people who see themselves in others and get offended, apparently.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoSaying all German WWII soldiers were Nazis would be like saying all current US soldiers are Democrats.
- sandworm101 2y agohttps://www.army.mil/values/oath.html https://www.army.mil/values/oath.html Yes but it would be accruate to describe all US soldiers as defenders of republican democracy, specifically that outlined in the US constitution. Defending the constitution is the heart of the oath. If that constitution was altered, as is can legally be, then all active US soldiers would become supporters of whatever form of government is described therein. Not being a member of a paticular party does not free a soldier from being described as a supporter of the government they serve. This is not just theoretical. Many US soldiers refused to recognize Obama as legitimate. Those soldiers were shown the door. A similar transition will occur in a few weeks.
- bossyTeacher 2y agoNo, it isn't. In the context it is normally used, Nazi soldier means a soldier that was part of the Nazi Germany army. It's like saying that CCP soldiers can't be called CCP because they might not necessarily hold communist ideologies themselves.
- mewse-hn 2y agoSoldiers fighting for Nazi Germany were Nazis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht
- aguaviva 2y agoThat's not what the Mythos was about. The whole big point of the Holocaust that everyone was supposed to have learned is that not only did one not have to be a "Nazi" (or even particularly sympathize with the regime or its ideology) in order to be an active or passive collaborator. All you had to do was keep your head down, and do what you were told. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42276731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42276731
- Spooky23 2y agoYes. We’re in the new era of the big lie. All of the witnesses to the war are dead, so we’re now doing the equivalent of “Dur dur, my great grand cousin from Mississippi was standing up for their heritage” (as opposed to having been drafted to defend an aristocrat’s ability to own humans) treatment. Now we’ll start hearing about central and Northern Europeans who were defending themselves from godless communists and woke French aggressors. The “just following orders” excuse is not necessary, as those folks are questioning whether anything happened that required that defense.
- skinkestek 2y agoWhat?
- heraldgeezer 2y ago[flagged]
- dh2022 2y agoMy home country of Romania was basically under German occupation through most of WWII. My grand mother lived in a village before,during, and a little bit after WWII. German soldiers did not loot - they paid for whatever food stuffs they got from the village. At a different scale: the German government paid the Romanian Corporations for all the oil and grains they bought to supply their war effort. Germans were remembered fondly by Romanians. The subsequent occupation by the Russian Red Army music less so…
- inglor_cz 2y agoTrue, but this guy fell in Poland, which was treated harshly by the Nazis, and probably fought in the USSR, where the behavior of the Nazis was absolutely unhinged. I would consider looting much more probable in that region. Romania was, at least theoretically, an ally of Germany, so (non-Jewish) Romanians got treated better than conquered nations like Poles, who were Slavic and thus lower on the racial totem pole.
- farialima 2y ago> Romania was basically under German occupation through most of WWII. that's not correct. Romania was an independent country, with a king, government, etc. Romania was allied to Germany, and there was a German presence, but the Germans did not exercise any power. In fact, there was a "palace coup" that switch alliances in 1944.
- dh2022 2y agoGermans did not exercise any power… other than telling Romanians to send their troops to Don’s bend, and to Sevastopol. Or not selling any of their oil to anybody else. Or basically telling the Romanian Prime Minister Antonescu to suck it up while Hungary took a big chunk of Transylvania. About the coup: it took place on Aug 23, 1944. The Red Army already took all of Moldovan and was gunning for the Carpathian Mountains. The German front broke yet again. That was the end of German influence in Romania: at the end of September 1944 Arab was ‘eliberated’ by the Red Army.
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- otwall 2y ago“Stolen war goods” is an interesting way describe a handful of antique coins.
- heraldgeezer 2y agoNo, lefties LOVE calling everything "Nazis" that they don't like. *not american
- astrange 2y agoYou can't be complaining like this about a /WW2 German soldier/.