• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    True, but that doesn’t explain why the History Channel made a bunch of breathless documentaries about the power of the Nazis fifty years after they were defeated

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      2 months ago

      Aren’t those the same guys that love dipping into conspiracy territory when it’s late enough? Then the answer is money

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        2 months ago

        You also have video games and movies and books making the Nazis out to be way more competent. It’s not like Wolfenstein ended with a drugged-up syphilitic Hitler cowering in a bunker, but a mecha-Hitler with Gatling guns.

        And it made money because of what I mentioned: It made Americans and Brits and Russians feel like they’d defeated a huge monster, not a country full of amphetamines and vibes.