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Bloomcole@lemmy.world 6 days agoPaperclip can be rationalised as pragmatic, but bow about these guys?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB_Gs-0dhOo
…substack.com/…/ratlines-nato-and-the-fourth-reic…
businessinsider.com/former-nazi-officials-in-germ…
Changed my view on history over the years.
azi@mander.xyz 6 days ago
They were effective anti-communists. Same reason after the War the US cuddled up with the essentially fascist regimes of Salazar and Franco.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Greece also was fascist.
All of them got a place in NATO, like many nazis.
They were anti-communist bcs that is the main characteristic of fascists.
And the US has zero problem with that, on the contrary.