Re:A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother
by olivermarks on Saturday September 29, 2018 @12:13AM
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Most people's perception of WWII has devolved into 1950's type Hollywood western 'white hat' 'black hat', good versus evil story telling with little understanding of substance. Presumably this is because the generations that experienced it have died or are too senile to discuss it publicly these days. We will never learn
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Re:A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother
by DoreenMichele on Saturday September 29, 2018 @12:52AM
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Following WW2, an awful lot of our fictional villains were German. That's changed relatively recently. Germans were the "trope" evil bad guy.
WW2 is actually even inspiration for, say, Star Wars. Darth Vader and his troops are something of a cross between Japanese samurai uniforms and WW2 German uniforms.
It's so deeply embedded, we don't even notice the connection. We don't question where those images come from. We just accept it as "Yup. Totes The Bad Guy! Looks Bad to me!"