Quote (Goomshill @ Sep 25 2023 01:05pm)
The waffen SS in Ukraine were carrying out some of the worst atrocities of the whole holocaust and eastern front in general, with about a million jews and three million slavs, gypsies and poles all murdered mostly by Nazi-organized Ukrainian nationalists and militia like this guy, the Bandera types. There's a western bias in media and popular culture to emphasize the western front and atrocities more visible to the folks who made hollywood movies about it, but the worst of the worst Nazis were militias and cooperators on the eastern front. The 100,000+ massacred in one mass grave in Kiev or those in Odessa didn't reach the concentration camps. And who was carrying out that butchery? The local SS units.
I mean, these guys were the bad Nazis, a distinction we aren't supposed to have to make these days
Ok, point well made. Perhaps slightly pedantic? Don't think anyone is arguing the SS were doing a great job. I am certainly not.
I also speak for myself. I don't speak for any bias media or supposedly popular culture; So I'm not really looking to argue what you say is their position.
Quote (Malopox @ Sep 25 2023 12:17pm)
I, for once, agree with everything you said here in your analysis.
In that case I must then obviously recant everything that I just said
This post was edited by Prox1m1ty on Sep 25 2023 08:33am