Topic: Are you ever afraid that you would have been a nazi?
Anonymous A started this discussion 11 years ago#39,404
The thing that happened to the nazi germans, its nothing short of madness. Of course we all like to think we would have never done such things, but think about it, you are sane and you only know the sane part of yourself. How can you know what or what not you would do if you were insane.
Metæ joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 18 minutes later[^][v]#524,373
It depends largely on what you mean by "would never have done such things". Only a relatively small amount of Nazis were responsible for the whole Final Solution thing. Indeed, it was kept so tightly under wraps it was largely unknown about until after the war, on both the Axis and Allied sides.
I don't think what happened to the vast majority of Germans is any different than what happened to the British or Americans of the time: many joined up, willing to die for their country, and many were conscripted. In fact, America interned its Japanese American population in concentration camps and deprived them of their civil rights for the duration of the war (as did Canada). Really, the Axis and Allies differed by degree only, as far as morality is concerned. I guess the great irony is that the European part of WWII was fought over Poland, which afterwards was handed over from the Nazis to that nice liberal democrat Joe Stalin.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 6 minutes later, 24 minutes after the original post[^][v]#524,374
yeah but even then, some of the nazi soldiers did what they did. Its easy to see it all as just another tragedy of war, but its not, its something new, something special. Its a society that did not just kill to stay alive, but killed to achieve racial purity. Of all things, they killed those Jews for racial purity. What does racial purity even mean? Taken to its logical dead-end, it simply means a world where only one race exists.
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 39 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#524,377
The madness is still here. Just in different ways. Life would be different if we were Nazis but much of it would be the same.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 20 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#524,378
Anonymous G replied with this 11 years ago, 4 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#524,409
@previous (HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY)
Then what? What else about you would the Nazis not have liked?
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 hours later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#524,422
a girl called me a nazi when i was in high school
Anonymous G replied with this 11 years ago, 53 seconds later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#524,423
@previous (H)
A Nazi called me a girl in middle school.
Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 8 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#524,424
No, I have literally never worried that.
squeegee joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 3 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[^][v]#524,453
no, i've always been a fan of rebal causes and underground movements. right or wrong. like in skyrim i'm to understand the storm cloaks are undeniably in the wrong? but i always sided with them against the imperials. and i love star wars and books like dune. so i imagine i would have been a part of an anti-nazi resistence movement or maybe just an amerian cowboy there to save europes ass. but no, i'm not worried about that.
Anonymous D replied with this 11 years ago, 9 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^][v]#524,454
swamplights !!0lQNsDoq/ joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 11 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^][v]#524,457
I would have been a Nazi, and so would you. It was very hard to nearly impossible, to not join the Nazi party.
Anonymous L joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 5 hours later, 16 hours after the original post[^][v]#524,533
I would have resisted, the same as every conscientious objector who sees an injustice hidden inside political rhetoric.
Anonymous M joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 14 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#524,641
@524,457 (swamplights !!0lQNsDoq/)
But would you be an evil Nazi? I like to think I wouldn't also I'd look damn good in the uniform
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#524,645
No the Nazis were arguably not very fond of Jews.
swamplights !!0lQNsDoq/ replied with this 11 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#524,664
@524,641 (M)
Probably not. I might have even been killed because of my birth defects.
Anonymous O joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 27 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#524,671
@previous (swamplights !!0lQNsDoq/)
They could have forgiven if you were these defects if you were a good asset to the reich. Even gays like Walter could find a place there. I bet Walt would make a fine SS officer.
In truth the eugenicist aspects of the reich are exagerated compared to the truth.
Syntax joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 24 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#524,672
@524,373 (Metæ) > n fact, America interned its Japanese American population in concentration camps and deprived them of their civil rights for the duration of the war
Fact is a great many of the Japanese put in2 USA Concentration camps were fully USA Citizens. B4 lock up they had to get rid of all personal property. Home owners ended up getting pennies on the dollar or LESS as in nothing for homes and anything they owned.
Republicans in power currently are mad as fuck at Obama for planned use of Executive orders. USA President Roosevelt with one signature on EO, to put anyone that looked Japanese in2 concentration camps.
Much like the Goose stepping Nazi's - Power corrupts and leaders turn into animals out on the hunt for power.
Christians did it back in the Crusades and Muslims do it today. The more things change the more they remain the same.
netscape joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 10 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#524,676
instead of nazi spell it "not-zi"
that way when people ask you can be like
no way bro, i dont identify with that
racist bullshit...im a not-zi
Anonymous R joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 9 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#524,680
Afraid? No. Waffen SS? Yes.
The Cat replied with this 11 years ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#524,731
@524,664 (swamplights !!0lQNsDoq/)
Actually they'd likely kill us all if they found this place. Nazi minichan would be dull as fuck
swamplights !!0lQNsDoq/ replied with this 11 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#524,735
> There is no doubt. I would have been a Nazi and I would have fully embraced it.
lol u would have been put
on a train to dachau the
moment u stepped into germany
squeegee replied with this 11 years ago, 26 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#524,760
@524,737 (ShitArse !saAqdaazn2)
pretty sure they executed the mentally retarded. the only thing you'd be embracing is your own ass as it's tossed into a gas chamber.
ShitArse !saAqdaazn2 replied with this 11 years ago, 9 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#524,764
@previous (squeegee)
Keep dreaming flat foot. Your people could never match the cultural achievements of the waring Europeans.
squeegee replied with this 11 years ago, 48 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#524,769
@previous (ShitArse !saAqdaazn2)
did you just insult my ancestors?
netscape replied with this 11 years ago, 20 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#524,772
> 1:The madness is still here. Just in different ways. Life would be different if we were Nazis but much of it would be the same.
Pretty much any authoritarian government has done lots of mass murder. All the Communist governments have gone on the same mass murdering spree as the Germans and they did about 20x as much because they went on much longer and in a much wider territory.
Most Western governments are growing more and more authoritarian, too. It's some sort of chimp-like mentality you can see in children. Those who think for themselves get punished. All authoritarian goverments go around purging anyone who dares to think differently than them. Even the nazis who pretended to care about the Germans, threw any German who didn't agree with them in concentration camps too, after of course purging the government of people who didn't think exactly like Hitler. I remember once seeing a video of all these Catholic nuns entering concentration camps. Communism did a lot of religious purging too.
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Anonymous T double-posted this 11 years ago, 7 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#524,816
@524,672 (Syntax) > >n fact, America interned its Japanese American population in concentration camps and deprived them of their civil rights for the duration of the war
Canada too.
I don't know how they were able to tell Japanese apart from other East Asian ethnicities though. Aside from the last names, it's hard to tell.
> Republicans in power currently are mad as fuck at Obama for planned use of Executive orders. USA President Roosevelt with one signature on EO, to put anyone that looked Japanese in2 concentration camps. >
There's a lot of stuff in the Federal government that's unconstitutional right now. All these government agencies, even federal income tax.
Anonymous D replied with this 11 years ago, 18 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#524,961
@524,813 (T)
All communism post Lenin has just been awful... and even being sympathetic to Leninism it would be an outright lie to say he didn't use genocide and terror.
Both Eastern and Western governments have done their fair share of atrocities. It's not just a growing issue in the West despite what personal biases or blindspots we may have.
Anonymous R replied with this 11 years ago, 43 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#524,962