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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
Which was run by Nazis.
Sorry, I don't buy it. I'm not saying each individual German soldier and sailor was evil, but they were fighting balls to the wall to advance the goals of a murderous, evil system. I equate it to the South, where Confederate soldiers were willing pawns in defence of slavery.
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When Lee was asked if he would command the Union forces he said he wouldn't abandon his country, Virginia. Do you think Robert E. Lee was fighting for slavery?
Or, as he stated, his country? This is the great lie of our civil war that it was about slavery. Lincoln said:
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Remember TAK's paraphrase some time back?
That being said I can see how the average German soldier could answer the call to duty without supporting or even condoning the NAZI party or what it did during WWII.