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[–] lath@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Sounds like a bunch of shitty historians.

Of course the motives matter, most of all for a good historian. Those who wish to reconstruct the past shall not be deterred from their goal just because "nobody cares anymore". Fidelity to an accurate representation of the past is the only acceptable rendition of history, otherwise why even bother.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago

Ok so what would you call them?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The history of Western Europe, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Americas is littered with "reformed Nazis" who came out of the 2nd World War pledging themselves to the cause of US/UK Capitalist Imperialism. It is not merely that we disregarded the intentions of the Reluctant Wehrmacht. It is that we found many of these fascists to be useful - either as expendable shock troops during the Cold War or as spies, scientists, and bureaucrats in postwar states still invested in a politically correct form of apartheid.

You can find the breadcrumb trail of German Fascism leading out of Berlin and into Buenos Aeries, Cape Town, and Huntsville Alabama. These fuckers never actually went away.

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago

Don't forget about the regular capitalists. Many of the richest German industrialists today are direct heirs of Nazis who actively helped Hitler gain power, built a personal empire from slave labor, faced no consequences for their actions, and were allowed to keep operating after the war.