I could go on about this for days, but I'll take a simple example to make my point with; and if you can look for yourself you will find it more or less replicates itself everywhere in any discussion where Nazis are even tangentially brought up.
It is often decried by leftists that American companies did business with 'the third reich'. When examined closely, when it is actually true, it mostly amounts to nothing more than that some Americans did business with some Germans - many of whom they had been doing business with for decades before there was an NSDAP. On some occasions these companies did business with the German NS government - just as they did with the American and, for that matter, the Soviet governments. In some very rare cases Americans actually gave money to the NSDAP or NSDAP-related organizations. Well, so what? Probably many more Americans gave money or some other support to the German Communist parties (often called Social Democrats). Now, as far as I can tell the only thing worse about the Nazis in Germany as compared to the Commies is that the Nazis won and the Commies didn't. In fact, after the Nazi victory, most of the NSDAP's rank and file were recruited from the Communist, Marxist and Social Democratic parties. And if you give me a choice between living in Bolshevik Russia and Nazi Germany - well, let's say it doesn't require much detailed examination of the actual history to decide I'd take Germany any day.
This Progressive American Hegemonic selective history irritates me in all its forms, but especially the Nazi thing; since to most Americans history began with World War 2. Hitler was insane, or demonaical, or some bizarre reason has to be conjured up for his behavior. How about this: people are ignorant herd animals and socialism sucks. The 'problem' of Nazism solved. Someone give me a Nobel Prize now.
Edited by ChromodynamicGirl, 12 October 2010 - 10:40 PM.