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lemmy.blahaj.zone straight up doing nazi apologia (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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a post about how many nazis remained in positions of power is made, the op is called a tankie and people defend the decision to keep nazis around

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[–] 72 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

I pointed out to a lib and a conservative I know about how many important positions found themselves filled with Nazis and they both looked them up and said "But they say there were forced to (join the Nazis)"

If Hitler hadn't eaten a bullet and been recruited as the head of the CIA and said the holocaust had been done behind his back and against his wishes, these people would've believed it

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If Hitler hadn't eaten a bullet and been recruited as the head of the CIA and said the holocaust had been done behind his back and against his wishes, these people would've believed it

    I feel like Hitler was probably fucked no matter what because the execution of some of the very top Nazis was important for propaganda reasons, but if Hitler was caught and tried and killed, there are probably other high-ranking Nazis who would have been recruited (the kabuki theater being satisfied by killing others) and said just as you describe

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    yeah, Japan got off relatively easy (mostly because its wholesale destruction presented an economic opportunity to the US), but they still executed Tojo.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    TIL burning down every building in Tokyo and 96% destruction of every permanent structure in the entire country is getting off lightly

    I kinda agree with you though, China should have been allowed to turn Japan into a penal colony after what they did

    Potentially up to 60 million wartime Chinese casualties, never even seen anybody in the west mention it in passing, even people that know about the unit 731 shit have no absolutely no idea the scale of what Japan inflicted upon China

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Bro I'm still fucking waiting for someone to test the bones of some beloved local librarian in Uruguay and confirm Hitler died in 1982 surrounded by three generations of his loving family

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lol can you even imagine how fucking furious most of western intelligence had to have been in the 1940s to be forced to pretend to fight against the Nazis instead of linking arms and becoming the Jehovah's witnesses of door to door narcoterrorism, extradition and torture?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Unfortunately somewhat easy to imagine ever since I discovered Allen Dulles (former head of the CIA) actually helped shelter Nazis and offered them top protection from Nazi hunters.

    EDIT: With one of the Nazis being literally Mengele. These are the people the government favors for agencies like the CIA.

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