• goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    21 days ago

    wait that’s the skull on their hats!? Til

    People when plattners tattoo was shown.

    Did they just whitewash the nazi imagery enough by focusing it all on the swatiska after the war or just a sign of how little people know history. Wait its both

    • Azarova [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      My history classes in high school basically stopped/ran out of time by the time we got to WW2, so all we got was the broadest, most simple overview. From what I’ve read, that seems to be a relatively common experience in the States, so WW2 knowledge ends up being filled in by pop culture, which tends to just use the swastika and also basically never mentions the Soviets, outside of the absurdly slanderous Enemy at the Gates, which is treated like a documentary by many US Americans.