• TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    There’s a confederate monument with a huge coward’s flag at mile marker 16 on I-24 in West Kentucky. I hate it and wish somebody would do something about it.

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    2 years ago

    Wikipedia:

    I got curious about the last statement in the article about war crimes and wanted to find information on what war crimes the division was responsible for.

    According to Wikipedia there has been numerous investigations which all (as I understood it) has been unsuccessful in finding hard evidence.

    Now, I’m not defending Nazis and I’m not saying this division was nice in any way or not guilty of war crimes. I’m just concluding that most things in life are not just black or white.

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    I wonder if any harm at all would be caused if a time traveler caused early miscarriage of every fetus that would become a Nazi or Nazi sympathizer.

    Like any harm, at all. I highly doubt it. Other than losing a clear example of what not to do in life.

    Edit: forgot a clarifying word

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    I wonder if this is anything like the Canadian one for those who were found innocent and actually contributed against the Nazis.

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    2 years ago

    They collaborated with the Nazis because the Soviets invaded and occupied the country twenty years earlier.

    They both fought against the Germans and the Soviets to try to go back to having independence

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      2 years ago

      The monument, in a Montgomery County community known for its synagogues, is dedicated to the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the Schutzstaffel — the Nazi military branch often referred to simply as “the SS.”

      Fuck them and fuck whitewashing.

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        Not to be that guy but the SS was also the foreign legions of Germany because they weren’t allowed in the Wehrmacht (normal military) and SS had many people that just wanted to fight the communists.