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Re:The Nobel Peace Prize 2016: Juan Manuel Santos by ptaipale on Friday October 07, 2016 @10:12AM (#12660763)
Do you say that Joseph Ratzinger was actually a Nazi, or just that he was a German soldier in Second World War? There's quite some difference.

The German army was just German army, not specifically a "Nazi army" even though the country was lead by Nazis and even though modern click-baiting headlines equate the two.

As far as I know, Ratzinger had nothing to do with National Socialism beyond what was compulsory and unavoidable under pain of death in Nazi Germany (i.e. being drafted).

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Re:The Nobel Peace Prize 2016: Juan Manuel Santos by trentmb on Friday October 07, 2016 @12:39PM (#12661979)
> The German army was just German army, not specifically a "Nazi army"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Wehrmacht

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Re:The Nobel Peace Prize 2016: Juan Manuel Santos by ptaipale on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:14PM (#12662269)
German army was not "clean". They were involved in various atrocities. Other armies also were not "clean". But saying that each and every conscript soldier serving in German army was a Nazi is hyperbole. Even if you did not like Nazis, it was perfectly understandable to like their main adversary, the Soviet army, even less, and fight for your homeland.
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Re:The Nobel Peace Prize 2016: Juan Manuel Santos by htns on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:14PM (#12662262)
That's just a poor article. The English Wikipedia in general is a horrible source on anything related to the Nazis.
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