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Lot of people in these comments weeping for the fate of Dresden and other cities in Nazi Germany, who can eat shit
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Replying to @arthur_affect
If you don’t want your cities level, don’t become Nazis. Simple.
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Replying to @JGavinSanders
Germany, all things considered, got off *incredibly* easy after World War II and anyone who seriously argues otherwise is sus
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JGavinSanders
Potsdam lead to one of the biggest ethnic cleansings in history. Remember, we're talking about women and children here.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_(1944–1950) …
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Just curious, how did the Germans wind up in those countries that were expelling them?
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Replying to @sophisticaden @jlippincott_ and
TBF a lot of them had been there for a lot longer than just the war. But also being fair their prior presence was used as justification to invade in the same vein as the Russian annexation of Crimea, and plenty of ethnic Germans supported the Nazis.
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Replying to @TrueMetis @sophisticaden and
The fascist Sudeten German Party was in fact *far more* popular with Sudeten Germans than the regular Nazis were back in the Fatherland - the SdP won a full 88% of Sudeten German votes in the last elections before the German occupation So no I don't feel that bad for them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis and
The intentional dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian empire was a huge problem. The 1920s was a time of enormous chaos in the East. It isn't surprising that people who lived in this world retreated back into ethnic identity.
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It doesn't have to be surprising to have deserved consequences
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