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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
I agree. Even the least political and most reluctant German sailor was fighting FOR the Nazi regime.
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I guess that makes each and every US soldier serving overseas today an ultra-republican believer isn't it?.
WW2 may have ended 60 years ago, but nazism is pretty much alive today. And I can't blame people for not wanting their vets to be linked with a regime who killed millions of innocents, just because people don't want to stop making generalizations.
See, there were nazis in the german armed forces during WW2. There were those who liked Hitler, there were those who didn't. Not all of them were nazis, not all of them weren't.
Of course in certain parts of the german armed forces of the time almost everyone was a nazi. Waffen-SS, for instance. But the average sailor, soldier or pilot simply wasn't more a nazi than a current US soldier can be republican.
Soldiers fight for their life, for their families' safety, for their friend's lifes and for their country. In that order. There are cases where ideology is a main instance, but on average, that goes way way way behind the avobe-mentioned preferences.
In any case there's no such thing as a Nazi ship. There were ships built by nazis, a totally different thing. Being as this is a submarine-fan forum you must know that many U-boat kaleuns were not exactly nazis, yet they fought the war for their country nonetheless...
aboard nazi-built u-boats...not nazi u-boats.
Just my .02$$.