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1936 Olympics, Berlin, Nazi Germany (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/historyporn@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

I'm not so convinced you can even talk about a "transition". Fascism and its nazi derivation, brewed and rised within democratic countries. And, lo and behold, they are still among us in our democracies so much so that they are ruling a number of countries.

Fascist Spain is Spain. Fascist Italy is Italy. Fascist Japan is Japan and Nazi Germany is as clearly just Germany.

Denying that is dangerous and doesn't give you the tools, as a country, to change.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Again, I agree that the fascists weren't properly tried for their crimes and removed from the institutions (they were in east-germany). I'm just saying that there's a consensus nowadays about using those terms to refer to countries that changed their regime at least in theory. If you want to make the argument to change that consensus, you'd be better understood explaining from the start your issues with the terms because of the lack of renovation of people in power and power structures, rather than just saying "there's no other Germany".

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