I bet you guys hated Inglorious Basterds - there’s a subplot where Brad Pitt’s character gets offended that Nazi soldiers (the ones he doesn’t torture to death) will be able to simply discard their uniforms after the war and nobody will know they were Nazis, so he carves swasticas into their foreheads with a hunting knife.
What is a Nazi then? Is it simply anyone wearing the uniform and serving? Or is it a worldview that someone has, regardless of uniform?
Loved it.
The latter. Although it is a certain fact that many soldiers would have been Nazis.
No doubt, but it kind of disproves the claim that simply joining the Wehrmacht during the reign of Hitler automatically turns you into a “Nazi”. I’m sure that there were honest-to-god Nazis in the Wehrmacht but I’m also sure that there were many that simply joined because they were forced to.
Or were in the army before Hitler gained power.
no, i served at the german airforce, and nobody from my comrades and me were nazis. a nazi is just a stupid rassist who has nothing in his head, is too lazy to work and just drinks alcohol and fights people that are not white or their color and uses drugs - just stupid these people are. here’s more about that shit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism
i wonder why the topic were called “Wehrmacht” - the hitler era was from end of WW I to the end of WW II, and it wasn’t only the “Wehrmacht”, it was also the SS and the GESTAPO. but the rassism itself (for example the anti semitism with the jewish people started a few hundred years ago) is much older and today the problem is in USA or other countries much stronger than in germany. here in germany when it’s parliamentary elections for the Bundestag only a few people (a not important number) vote the national socialism party and there are even no more much of them left - and this is good, hope there will be no more partys like this in the future.
so i would confirm what you’ve asked: it’s a worldview that someone has, regardless of the uniform.
No need to. He’s beyond pain and sorrow now.
It was hard to swallow the brutality of that scene in the movie (most of the movie was too brutal for me to swallow easily), but I think that’s exactly what a REAL Nazi deserved for doing what he did. The character in question was not an unlucky guy pressed into service - he was a dedicated prey hunter for the Reich. The only characters in this movie that I was not disgusted by were the women.
No, that’s called a soldier.
Oh, come on, that was an awesome film!
I agree. It’s only that it was full of disgusting characters (except the women - and maybe the French man at the beginning, he was just a poor sod) and extreme brutality. I said it was hard to swallow (for me at least), not that it wasn’t awesome.
Oh, of course the characters were disgusting, but it was funny regardless.
I thought that was the whole point? Pretty much all the characters were pretty much caricatures.
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No need to. He’s beyond pain and sorrow now.
yes, mine too.
The topic is about how much blame the German armed forces recieved for their actions. The SS and Gestapo were unquestionably the stereotyped Nazis.