Fucked up fact I learned in college, Nazis deliberately tried to project themselves into the future by building shit that emulated buildings from the past with the hope they would last a thousand years.
I learned about this playing Medal of Honor 2 Underground back in the day. Part of the plot was stopping the Nazis from putting their adulterations on ancient ruins. They were trying to make it seem like their ideology was older than what it really was.
Uhh they were pretty heavy in their propaganda about it being a new movement of the young, not that that’s what it actually was, but we’re talking about “trying to seem” here. It’s just standard fascist fetishization of the past
Fucked up fact I learned in college, Nazis deliberately tried to project themselves into the future by building shit that emulated buildings from the past with the hope they would last a thousand years.
The Red Army solved this problem with dynamite
Future fascist civilizations building parking garages to evoke the ancient US empire.
Blowing up that swastika in Nuremberg was the sole, uncomplicatedly good thing the US has ever done
I learned about this playing Medal of Honor 2 Underground back in the day. Part of the plot was stopping the Nazis from putting their adulterations on ancient ruins. They were trying to make it seem like their ideology was older than what it really was.
Uhh they were pretty heavy in their propaganda about it being a new movement of the young, not that that’s what it actually was, but we’re talking about “trying to seem” here. It’s just standard fascist fetishization of the past
Yeah, it's less "our ideology is literally ancient" and more claiming "our ideology is the spiritual successor to the 'great' societies of the past"
The theory was Ruin Value. It wasn't so much about making the buildings last for centuries but having them look cool when they were in ruins.
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they turned the old Luftwaffe HQ into a tax office.
Libertarians will tell you this was the bigger sin.