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RoboXgp89 posted...

everyone who got invaded by russia is?was a nazi
you see how confusing that is to just hate all nazis

there are plenty of war criminals to hate, not just every nazi or every soviet for being in the army at the time
there was so much propaganda and stuff going on with poland most of the nazi's thought they were the good guys or at least better than the soviets

You can indeed make an argument against demonizing the Nazi soldiers in WWII. They were just fighting in a war they played no part in starting, and which they had to fight in in order to survive. The ones that actually carried out the genocide, not so much. They were unambiguously doing something terrible, and can only possibly defend their actions by claiming duress (where applicable). It's that latter group that's typically associated with the Nazis when people refer to them retrospectively, hence the unilateral disdain from all the non-awful people.

In the modern day, however, there are no Nazi soldiers caught up in their country's warmongering. Neo-Nazis are people who look back on everything we now know about the big picture of WWII and feel that Hitler was the good guy there. There's no confusion involved in designating those Nazis as bad people.