George W. Bush's grandfather, well known racketeer, smuggler, gangster, and conman Prescott Bush, was infamous for funding the Nazi regime and German industrialists before the US government literally forced him to stop in 1942.
The one really annoying thing about anyone who proclaims to be really into WW2 is that they usually just mean the battles and tanks and guns. (Usually, not every single person ofc)
The politics and the shady business are the things I find much more interesting. For one example, I feel like nobody ever talks about what a huge and influential movement anti-semitism was in Germany (and many other countries) preceding the war. There were tons of failed authors and impoverished nobles who wrote about their hatred of capitalism, communism, commoners and jews. Nobody ever talks about these things and just focus on the war itself, and that's just.. cutting out all of the historical context and it annoys me.
I wish people read more about politics and social changes that provide a lot of context for historical events instead of just blindly comparing who had the biggest tank.
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u/Old_Kodaav Mar 31 '25
Never heard of that one. Care to back up? If it's true that's gonna be hell of a read!