dare-i-say-asexual: moonlandingwasfaked:veryhappyturtle-deactivated2017:arsaniit:saintalia: TH
dare-i-say-asexual: moonlandingwasfaked: veryhappyturtle-deactivated2017: arsaniit: saintalia: THIS MAN REPRESENTS THE BIGGEST MOOD So, um… I can’t do this anymore. I can’t sit here and be quiet after seeing so many goddamned games where Nazis are pure evil and nothing else and no one even tries to think that maybe there’s something else to it. My Oppa (great grandfather) was a German soldier during World War II. He was conscripted. He was not a supporter of Hitler’s regime. He was, however, what people would label a Nazi. My great Nana was a German civilian during World War II and a proud supporter of Hitler’s party. Why? Because Germany was in chaos after World War I and here comes this man who promises that he can save them. That he can make it better. But you know what else she was? A singer. A brilliant cook. An incredible artist. I’m named after her, and not one day, not for one second am I ashamed of it. So, my great Nana, my great grandfather, my papa and his five brothers and two sisters were forced to run from Germany, from their home, after World War II because my Oppa was wanted by the Russian military. If they had stayed, they would have been killed. My papa is a Canadian engineer, working for the government. He was in Dresden, when the tanks rolled in. When it was bombed. When his friends were killed, and the bombings were insisted to only be on “strategic military targets”. He was a ballet dancer. He built the house my dad grew up in, on his own. He loves music, and telling bad jokes. But whenever we ask, whenever we tell him about stuff like this game, whenever we mention something someone said at school about Germans, he gets this look in his eye. Sad, yes. But also frightened for us - third generation Germans. Because he knows we live in a society where no one makes an effort to know the other side. I had family on the other side of a war, whose story was written by the winners. Family who was desperate for hope. Family who didn’t have a choice. Just… thought that was worth mentioning. I know, I know - Hitler was a terrible, despicable excuse for human being, as were a lot of those who supported him, and I’m not trying to excuse stuff like that. But words like this? “There are a lot of things you can do with a hatchet and a Nazi”? It makes me wonder if anyone’s willing to see beyond the black and white we’ve come to accept as absolute. *hatchets you too* ur grandparents were nazis and i would love to have dismembered them hey sarah quick question but uhhhhhhhhhhhh what kind of antisemitic shitbag do you have to be to humanize literal nazis and hitler,,, op ur grandma literally supported the incredibly inhumane of 6 million jews millions of others in different groups and ur grandpa was part of the group that did that why would you do this to urself -- source link