It’s been repeated a lot over the years. People tend to distance themselves from slave stuff, but the Wehrmacht is given a pass. Goes hand in hand with the purposeful myth around “Germans didn’t know” when all evidence points to everyone knowing.
Genocidal rhetoric for years, people speaking about extermination come into power, laws passed that legalize theft from those who were spoken about being genocided, police openly begin beating and killing them in public, random citizens do the same with no repercussions and also rob them… fast forward years “wow, but who knew they were all being murdered?”
It’s been repeated a lot over the years. People tend to distance themselves from slave stuff, but the Wehrmacht is given a pass. Goes hand in hand with the purposeful myth around “Germans didn’t know” when all evidence points to everyone knowing.
Hitler & co: “We’ll kill everyone who isn’t us!”
Germans: “Yay! Kill them all! Here’s my vote!”
Hitler & co: does what they say they’ll do
USSR: “Hey look at all the terrible shit the Germans are doing.”
Germans: “How could we have known! We’ve been bamboozled! Woe is us!”
Genocidal rhetoric for years, people speaking about extermination come into power, laws passed that legalize theft from those who were spoken about being genocided, police openly begin beating and killing them in public, random citizens do the same with no repercussions and also rob them… fast forward years “wow, but who knew they were all being murdered?”