Citation needed. But for real though, Germany declared war on the US after the US declared war on Japan for the actions at Pearl Harbor. The US didn’t declare war on Germany because the enemy at the time was only Japan. What you claim is just not correct.
The citizens from the United States of America are referred to as Americans, the citizens of Canada are referred to as Canadians, and the citizens from Mexico are referred to as Mexicans. You can refer to any of those 3 groups as North Americans. Canadians and Mexicans are not Americans, they are different things. Similar to how you don’t refer to South Americans as Americans. Different words have different meanings.
Yes, not just nazism, but Facism and Communism. It really has no place in this world.
I wouldn’t assume someone’s of any party, I was raised as a Conservative; and still hold many of the similar ideologies over economics, but I had religious ideas and politics shoved down my throat at a young age, and wanted nothing to do with any of it by age 12. I don’t personally align with any party, but one could assume I presume.
In the 1920s, fascism emerged as an ideology, in the 1930s Nazi-fascism emerged and everyone could see what happened, after ww2.
Today we know well what fascism means, although at that time no one was sure of its meaning and consequences.
Nowadays there is certainly an attempt to return this ideology under a new guise, neo-fascism.
It’s up to people to know what they want
This almost needs an extra field in the report system, where it lists out what vehicles they’ve pulled out already in the match, and you can select which one has it shown so it can be removed, and some sort of restriction placed on the ones doing this stupid crap.
That is wrong. Although there was a court judgement on this topic in Germany in 2018, it only stated that there may be exceptions to the general ban in very specific cases. No more and no less.
War Thunder is not one of the games for which an exception to the general ban applies.
There are many things we can still be proud of in germany, but the two dictatorships from 1933 to 1945 and from 1948 to 1990 and the horrors, large and small, associated with them are undoubtedly not among them.
I can only explain how you got the impression that we wouldn’t talk about it here with your carefree approach to the subject.
Not only, but especially US citizens like to try to start conversations about the Second World War in a very inappropriate way. But for the majority of Germans, it’s not a topic that you just talk about with strangers on the street.
Yet for us it is present virtually everywhere and at all times.
Let’s ignore the family history, or the thousands of war invalids that I saw everywhere and all the time on the streets as a child. For me, from the seventh grade onwards, there was only one subject in German, social studies and history for three or four years: the Third Reich. There wasn’t a week on television without a feature film or a documentary about this period, and since we’ve had private television, these documentaries have been running in a continuous loop on the special interest channels, whether they were produced in Germany or abroad.
If you still feel the need to talk about it, send me a message, but not in the beer garden.
As an Italian I can understand your feeling. Having to deal with such past and horror is not a thing that you can afford as a coffe conversation. That is what I always try to explain to some of my compatriots when they say the same thing about the Germans.
Unfortunately, we did not have an Italian Nuremberg nor any real in-depth reflection about Fascism on a large scale as in Germany (schools, etc.). We were used with the “Italians good people” refrain and that we did not make anything like the Germans. Unfortunately, during WWII we were not “good people”: we made brutal reprisals, killing civilians and such in the occupied territories only in a minor scale than the Germans, but we were guided by the same violent aggressive ideologies.
The fact that we did not plan such a monstrous thing as an industrial extermination of an entire people does not allow us to deem that fascism was so much different from nazi regime and that for that reason we are exempt from totally confronting our past.
From this point of view I envy what Germany managed to do for its citizens and the generations following the war.
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