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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.
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.
Actually we called them Mitläufer (going along with the dominant party in fear of punishment)... but they sure weren't any better than Nazis.
I dont really fault someone for joining a party bcz they don't want to be shot and drug through the dirt.
I've never seen or heard anyone use drug as the past tense of drag in my long-legged life.
Drig, Drag, Drug
Actually you have, right before you wrote that comment.
I guess it's an irregular use of the word. Maybe where I grew up, or I'm tired today. Dunno.
It's cromulent, don't worry about it.
