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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
I don't think there was anything especially German about Naziism. It is interesting that it happened there, but I think we have to be careful about making any conclusions from that.
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That's all too true
Many countries have (had) similar nationalist movements that considered their own culture/race/whatever to be highly superior to other cultures/races/whatevers. The Nazi's only differ in that they were pretty successful at the time and that their acts were much more horrendous than most of similar movements.
But IMO nowadays we also have to be careful about making any conclusions about someone being a nazi. I'm a huge fan of metal music, and disgusted by the fact that left-extremist organisations entitle many folk/viking metal bands as nazis, only because they use old Germanic symbology and sing about Germanic mythology.
Similarly if I encounter a swastika in a sig on a WW2-related forum it doesn't mean anything more to me than that that person has some interest in the German military.
Of course this excludes non-ww2 related forums, where I think it does clearly make a statement about ones political alignment.