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a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat
I am not a WWII expert and don't know which unit his grandfather was in, with that in mind the Wehrmacht was a draft army and many non-Nazis were forced into the military and died "for their country" to protect their own families (if only from the consequences of their refusing to serve).
That's a man's duty to his family in my opinion, and I can't hate him for that. Many were executed for refusing to serve, also asset forfeiture and working in camps. If I had children, in their position, I would have served in the hopes of keeping them alive and well (not knowing that the entire country would be razed in a few years).
My grandfather served US Navy against the Japanese, he was a submariner. Until the day he died in his 80s he refused to tie his shoes, and any shoes that he wore had to be loose so that he could kick them off. He usually wore slippers.
Later, I found out that this was because his submarine was sunk, and he almost died trying to get his boots off to swim to the surface. He refused to talk about any of it to anybody.
Horrifying. I'm sorry for all of the "good people" involved on every side of the war.
I'll GTFO now
It's blurry but it kinda looks like the eagle is looking right which would make it a symbol of the party and not the state. So that man was a bit more involved in the whole Nazi apparatus than someone who just got drafted.
Yeah, the badge on his left is an SA or SS badge, meaning he went above just being drafted to Wehrmacht.
Neither SA nor SS. Those were completely different.
Adding links to the wiki pages is a pain on my phone for some reason. Look them up!
Thanks for making me double check, looks like I misremembered. This is an SA sports badge, but getting one does not mean the person was an SA member.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA_Sports_Badge
Ooh, I was commenting on the symbol on the left the whole time and didn't see the one on the right at all! Looks like you identified the right one correctly.