https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/k4iljw/found_my_grandpa_nazi_uniform_buttons/
Remember Google also started its operation under the guise of anti-evil.
At least they had the decency to eventually remove "don't be evil" from their mission statement or whatever lol
Hahahaha remember when a bunch of redditors thanked a nazi for his service?
haha I looked that up again recently for shits and giggles, and it wasn't just some wehrmacht grunt either, he was fucking Waffen SS
I just went back and reread part of it as well and wow it's even worse than I remember
While I will admit that my first instinct on seeing your grandfather was a member of the SS was one of repulsion, reading his responses has shown me that my instinct was based on ignorance.
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My first task as political commissar will be to expunge those records and put them in a museum which noone leaves when asking for them.
I guess it's an interesting piece of history but like . . . :soviet-hmm:
most of my family just liked putting bombs in front of nazi bases. one of them was 92 and would drop a bomb while on a walk
Modeled some of their policies after our anti-indigenous genocide and segregation. Literally cited a U.S. Supreme Court case on eugenics (Buck v. Bell) at the Nuremberg Trials.
They found the "One Drop Rule" too excessive though and settled on 1/4. Imagine your laws being so bad even the Nazis are saying chill dog.
I don’t believe that his grandpa was forced to join the Nazis or that he only drove trucks or that absolves him of being fucking nazi
I shot myself in the hand with a pellet gun once. It fuckin hurt, I had to go to urgent care to get it pulled out and had to wear some real cumbersome bandages for a week. Thankfully there was no permanent damage, but I keep the pellet they pulled out of me in a little plastic jar on my desk as a reminder to myself on not to do stupid shit again.
Of course, my regrettable choices in life have never resulted in genocide, so I don't know what Grandpa Nazi's problem there is, other than the obvious
These should be behind glass in a museum. Nobody should be privately collecting or holding onto their Nazi memorabilia. Fucking nobody. It's not "mildly interesting" its "definitely concerning."
pretty sure the majority descendants that agree with the original killing of the nazi, rather than cherishing the nazi memorabilia, would prefer to have a publicly viewable memorial set up of their family member that killed nazis, in the form of a "taken as war trophy by soandso at whicheverbattle" museum display
but maybe thats just me idk
wonder how long it will take for someone to thank his grandpa for their service
my partner found her grandfather's nazi medals (he was a 15 year old mailman in farming towns in north germany at the end of the war) and hid that shit away from her entire (more reactionary) family. We were still creeped out that he kept them though.
depending on what the guy was like, he might have kept them as a source of shame rather than pride. a reminder what not to be.
had a family friend who died a few years back that kept his vietnam medals, despite very much hating them, because he felt it would be wrong to try and discard the role he played
edit: still creepy tho, cause fucking medals for killing innocent people
makes total sense. unfortunately the guy died before my partner turned one, so never got to figure out what it might have been. I know they stopped speaking german at home once coming to the US, so the shame angle makes sense
One day people will have the same reaction when someone finds their grandpapa's US Army tags or some shit.
Don't know if better or worse that they just flat out say Nazi vs German solider.
I know but what I mean is that in the past they wouldn't just say my grandfather's a nazi just say something like he was a german solider fighting against the commies and libs eat that up.
