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5753f943 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @13df7ed9 @7840ab79 There was a docu in two parts in Vimeo time ago (2013/4, maybe) about the scene of WW2 historical reenactment, and all of the "it's just a hobby, people don't get their politics involved just by wearing a German uniform" statements fell down the trough the moment they showed one of the exhibitors attending an event was David motherfucking Irving.
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5753f943 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @13df7ed9 @7840ab79 I play WW2 hex-and-counter wargames, and I have played the Germans many a time, but if I had a euro for every motherfucking game that glorifies the SS, I could raise my own space programme.
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Rushputin | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @3c664af7 @7840ab79 I've heard the theory (totally unable to source this, but it very much passes the sniff test) that so much of our contemporary understanding of WWII has been filtered/tainted by overreliance on narratives & histories written by the Nazis.  That, thanks to Operation Paperclip, history was written by the losers.
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Rushputin | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @3c664af7 @7840ab79 Which is how you get shit like BA2 having a rule where anyone who can see a King Tiger has to roll to not shit their britches.  It's just reading loser Nazi propaganda as fact.
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Rushputin | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @3c664af7 @7840ab79 It's really wild!  Like there are out-and-out Nazis, but then there's this whole swathe of people (I really like 'wehraboo') who seem to just not realize that they're just too into Nazi Germany to not be?
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5753f943 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @13df7ed9 @7840ab79 The dream of anti-Communism engenders monsters, or something.