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   pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 19:48:06 JST pettter

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   • Thomas 🔭🕹️
   • crab amplifier

   @outie @thomasfuchs Similar dynamic to when the British 'seemingly instituted slavery for the sole pleasure of abolishing it' Germans sometimes were a nation of 100% conscientious objectors who now feel absolutely empowered to lecture the rest of the world on what is and isn't fascism and genocide.

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     crab amplifier (outie@slime.global)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 19:48:07 JST crab amplifier

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs my grandfather was a Wehrmacht soldier who spent a couple of years after the war in a POW camp and while he was never an overt Nazi while I knew him, he carried enough veiled racism with him for the remaining 50 years of his life that even as a young teen I noticed it

     It gives antifascism a very weird personal dynamic and it's profoundly unsettling that so many Germans seem to have forgotten how widespread these very close and personal connections to the Nazis still are.

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     Robyn (redrobyn@mastodon.nz)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 05:17:26 JST Robyn

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs could you say where is the quote from?