The germans during ww2 for the most part were just people fighting a war. Most of them were good people like anyone, anywhere else and had no idea about the holocost thing and it is rediculas to suggest they did. The swastica was just a symbol like americans had the blue star and russia had the red star etc. Im wearing a maltese cross ring as i write. Not because I condone the houlocost but because people are sometimes freaky about nazi symbols and i like the ring. They should have put ALL correct symbols on the american version of the game. Its a Constitutional 1st amendmant right here. Would be nice if they just made an optional historically correct patch. Remember, its only the people that won the war that write the history if that tells you anything. The germans soldiers did A lot of terrable things and so did the americans and russsians etc. The only differance is the winners write history and they brush their own dirty parts under the rug.
Sorry you guys had to read all this. For $50, I want a Ju-87g to fly and i want it to have swasticas on it. I also want it to show little symbols under the canopy of all the allied planes it shot down. It would really be nice if modders got a hold of this game in the future like they do with "battlefield 2" and others.
By the way, I din't see the "de-bug" thing in the demo. I couldnt turn my swastikas on.
The Nazi movement was an ideological movement founded in 1919 and led by Adolf Hitler. The entire party was based on ideas of German racial superiority, it promoted territorial expansion, blamed the Jews for the ills of Germany and called for their removal from the German society. Over 50% of the population were members of this party, thats how they came into power. They were the majority of the germany. The hatred of the jews was a major founding belief that everyone new about. They used socialism to control the minority population so they were dependent on the government for everything , they had to fall in line.
Now that said , Yes atleast 40% of the population didn't agree and probably never new about the holocaust, and I'm sure that there were people in the Nazi party that didn't all know about the holocaust. But everyone in the Nazi party new that one of the top 3 founding princibles was hatred of the jews and to remove them from german society.
The difference in say America's conflict against African Americans and slavery is, the fact that half the country started a civil war to free the slaves.
A example, We haven't banned the confederate flag, and the reason is the confederate flag was not based on the hatred of Africans, and the promotion of slavery. It was not a core princible on which the flag/symbol or the south was based on.
Some people connect the confederate flag with the promotion of slavery, but there is no true bases to connect it to, atleast not based on the history of that flag.
My relatives left germany and came to america when the Nazi party became the majority of the population. My great Grandmother told my grandmother that even before the nazi party took over, the hatred of the jews was such that they were fired from jobs and treated as if they weren't human beings. This was in a small town in the country side far away from any of the major citys. I'd say that in my opinion shows me that this racial hatred of the jews was that wide spread and it explains how the Nazi party won control with removal and hatred of the jews as a unhiden core princible.
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