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Vampire_Chicken posted...

Neo-Nazis typically view the Greatest Generation in one of two ways, and sometimes both:

#1. As martyrs who were tragically duped or forced into fighting on the wrong side. Neo-Nazi commemorations of VE day lay stress on the importance of reconciliation between "racial comrades" and the pledge of "no more brothers' wars", and they don't see anything "unpatriotic" about honouring a "noble enemy".

#2. As bad guys who invaded, conquered, destroyed, divided, and enslaved poor Germany to crush the heroic national-socialist revolution. In this narrative, Allied war crimes take centre stage and the moral hierarchy is turned on its head so that Germany becomes the "real" victim and the western democracies are seen as aggressor states. Some neo-Nazis, though, are reluctant to push this line very far in case it starts to sound too "anti-American".

I dont know which one is worse. I would add a 3rd option, too. Good old pure concentrated ignorance. These neo nazis dont really have an understanding of what went on and think its cool somehow to wear and display nazi imagery and slogans.