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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 42 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago)

What if your culture was the inspiration for the nazis?

History furnishes us with innumerable instances that prove this law. It shows, with a startling clarity, that whenever Aryans have mingled their blood with that of an inferior race the result has been the downfall of the people who were the standard-bearers of a higher culture. In North America, where the population is prevalently Teutonic, and where those elements intermingled with the inferior race only to a very small degree, we have a quality of mankind and a civilization which are different from those of Central and South America. In these latter countries the immigrants--who mainly belonged to the Latin races--mated with the aborigines, sometimes to a very large extent indeed. In this case we have a clear and decisive example of the effect produced by the mixture of races. But in North America the Teutonic element, which has kept its racial stock pure and did not mix it with any other racial stock, has come to dominate the American Continent and will remain master of it as long as that element does not fall a victim to the habit of adulterating its blood.

https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt - Main Kampf

Jim Crow was Hitler's inspiration tor the Nuremberg laws.

Black GIs then came back from liberating Europe.

To by lynched from trees for being 'Uppity'.

This is the heritage they are proud of:

[–] lath@lemmy.world 8 points 5 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 8 points 2 hours ago

Ok so what would you call them?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 4 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 40 minutes 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.

[–] DmMacniel 69 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Actually we called them Mitläufer (going along with the dominant party in fear of punishment)... but they sure weren't any better than Nazis.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I dont really fault someone for joining a party bcz they don't want to be shot and drug through the dirt.

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

They are at fault. If everyone that didn’t refuse join because of such reasons didn’t join there would be no one to do the shotting and the dragging.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 30 minutes ago

Boy wait until you hear about forced religious conversions.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 minutes ago

Assuming everyone coordinates and works together to fight it. It's much easier to kill someone who refuses to join than it is to protect them.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 11 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I've never seen or heard anyone use drug as the past tense of drag in my long-legged life.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

Drig, Drag, Drug

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 7 points 5 hours ago

Actually you have, right before you wrote that comment.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I guess it's an irregular use of the word. Maybe where I grew up, or I'm tired today. Dunno.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

It's cromulent, don't worry about it.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago