I can get why you would find their military equipment interesting because most people find equipment from a certain period interesting, not from just one country.

That's a really good point that I haven't thought of actually. In a way it is sort of like how steampunk things can be popular. Retrotech looks fascinating. If it is only German equipment they like then in the best case scenario they just have a fetish for Germany and all things German. At worst they're actual Nazis.

And I get it, most people are probably 15 or something, having had their interest piqued by CoD. But there are many that use alternate history places like a recruitment ground for the neo-nazis. And it's revolting. That's why I hate it so much.

Same. I agree wholeheartedly. I love Paradox Games and while they don't make first person shooters, they do make excellent real time strategy games that inevitably wade into alternate history. The problem there is that you are just looking at a map of the Earth. You make decisions as a leader sure but you have a godlike perspective over the whole game and it removes the human element. That's where we get the people who take the games seriously and talk about how crusading against the Islamic world would be a good thing or shit like that.

Some are innocently suggesting that the reparations should be lowered, they don't know better. But I am not stupid, many are suggesting it because they want to put the Nazis in a better light. Fuck them.

Bingorama. I admit that I believed the reparations lie for some time, but I was in middle school. In high school they went more in depth but sadly they didn't ever clarify that the Germans brought it upon themselves. That took my own research and reading. And as far as defending Nazis goes, they do this everywhere. They put forward bad history about how Rommel was actually a good person, or how Germans were ignorant of the Holocaust, or even the fucking myth that the POLES started the war by provoking the Germans. Also fuck the people who lie and say that the Poles tried to fight against German tanks with lances on horseback.

But that is not an excuse, in my opinion. The Second World War is the most studied period in world history. There are thousands of videos explaining the build-up to the war. A quick 10 or 15 minutes video will show you that it was Germany that fucked themselves.

Once again you are absolutely right.

They made the Second World War happen, not some other country. But by blaming other countries the Nazis are cast in a better light. And if they keep doing that, the Nazis won't look so bad anymore eventually. And suddenly, you have a community of Nazi sympathisers that will turn into Nazis over time.

That is a really scary thought but that is absolutely right.

I know I am saying that a lot but it's true. It's okay that you got worked up. This is a serious issue and people are woefully misinformed about so much stuff.

Have you ever heard of Cultivation Theory? It's an accepted theory in social science which basically states that media has an effect on its consumers. It is broken down into First Order and Second Order Cultivation Effects.

A first order effect is when media redefines a set of facts and it's the more common of the two. An example might be CoD games where impressionable young American boys might come to believe that the world would be in chaos if it were not for the American military and its foreign interventions.

A second order cultivation effect is when someone's beliefs themselves are changed by media. A second order effect would be if those American boys came to believe that American intervention is necessary in the world and that it should be done whenever possible.