3,060,000 German military personnel were taken prisoner by the USSR and that 1,094,250 died in captivity (549,360 from 1941 to April 1945; 542,911 from May 1945 to June 1950 and 1,979 from July 1950 to 1955)

lemmitor “My innocent Aryan warriors”

Wehrmacht was not a Nazi organisation. Members were free to join the party but they were not under any obligation. The SS was an explicitly Nazi army but completely separate from the Wehrmacht.

Very cool clean Wehrmacht myth

Good to know world isnt a leftist echo chamber, you can share nazi propaganda too

  • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    Everybody that buys into the clean Wehrmacht myth is hoping that history is as kind to them with all their sins as they are to Nazi sympathizers. The even compare supporting the Nazis with supporting the invasion of Iraq. It’s literally them just trying to not be remembered as bad people for all the horrible things they support/benefit from, when the much easier solution is to change beliefs to be better

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      We now know one of the reasons nazis created the death camp industrial murder places was because their soldiers kept getting PTSD. Early in the Holocaust, they had troops shoot, stab, beat, and burn undesirables. Not only was this costly in terms of time and resources, suicides rates and alcohol use skyrocketed among the ranks carrying out these orders. Interviews with Holocaust perpetrators reveal they believed what they were doing was a necessary evil to eliminate judeo-bolshevism, but still left them feeling guilty.

      It’s no secret US veterans from Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the 2003 Iraq War had higher levels of PTSD compared to conflicts like Desert Storm and Somalia. I’m wondering now if it’s because America fell into the same pitfalls as Nazi Germany regarding war crimes.