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PaperclipPerfector  10mo ago (text post)   4648 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 16, 2024

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Whether or not German racial purity laws considered Slavs to be "Aryan" or not isn't terribly important. I guess that's what's actually being argued there. It may or may not be technically true, but it doesn't change the fact that the Nazi regime launched effectively a war of annihilation against the Slavs, seeking to seize "Lebensraum " for the "German race" from them, produced boatloads of propaganda claiming the Slavs were subhuman, and then via the Barbarossa Decree declared that it was in fact a war of extermination and there would be no such thing as a war crime on that front.

And yeah, that's SecureSignals, our resident Nazi apologist. I don't think he'd even object to that label. We do need a little of that, since the anti-Nazi types aren't free from bullshit either, but yeah you might want a large grain of salt on that subject.

Barbarossa Decree declared

Unlike Winston Churchill's genocide of Boers or America's extreme attempts to clear out insurgents in Vietnam, Germany was fighting an existential war and was going out hard on insurgents.

How many trials were provided to the people the US murdered with drone strikes?

Germany was fighting an existential war and was going out hard on insurgents.

This is unironically one of the funniest comments I've read all day. You realize that WWII Germany is basically the poster child for aggressive, expansionist war in modern history, right?

Against the 13 colonies of the United states which now includes Iraq, Syria and a bunch of other countries and the British empire and the Soviet union. You realize the Brits unprovoked annexed Iran during the war while already occupying roughly a quarter of the planet. Germany was taking back areas it lost 20 years earlier and that were German.

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