Re:The Nazi of Oak Park
by hydrogen7800 on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @03:31PM
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Key difference: Denazification was imposed on Germany from the Allies. There was no such force during reconstruction.
Half the purpose of reconstruction was purging Confederates from any position of political influence.
Unfortunately, a campaign of terrorism that culminated in the crooked compromise of 1877 brought an end to that.
Re:The Nazi of Oak Park
by shadowgovt on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @03:11PM
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I wonder from time-to-time how many Richmonders realize that the Union didn't burn down the town; the Confederacy did to deprive the Union of the munitions stores. Richmonders were trying to put the fire out because, well, it was destroying their homes.
Portions of the city that were razed weren't rebuilt until into the Nineties (the 1990s).
But somehow, a mythology clings on that the Union were the problem, not the people carrying the torches.
Germany as a whole hates Nazis, both because they were absolute monsters in human skin, and because they brought unprecedented and absolute ruin and devastation to the country.
Any right-thinking southerner should feel the same way about the Confederacy. And yet, a good chunk of them actively think that those animals were some kind of national heroes, unafraid of proudly broadcasting their affiliation with them.
For all the apologists white-washing history, you don't see a lot of elementary schools named after Heinrich Himmler in Berlin.
The world might not have a lot of heroes, but it has no shortage of utterly irredeemable villains.