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[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

Found some where last name and city name matched, but asked my mom to narrow down the search.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

My German ancestry predates the Nazis, but I probably have relatives who were.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 23 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Something like this may be handy when MAGA's start taking off their hats and peeling off the bumper-stickers.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago

They really aren’t hard to identify. Perhaps they can be a little hard to distinguish from nonvoters in some cases. But otherwise they reek of ignorance, arrogance, and confident incompetence.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 35 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

Spoiler...
They probably were.

But to be fair, Germans took a lesson from history, at least in the west, in the east however, they covered it up. And so AfD grew from the east with the help of Putin and Trump.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 18 minutes ago

It was heavily covered up in W Germany too.

[–] Tolc@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Germans took a lesson from history

Not really

And DDR prosecuted and ran intensive denazification programmes

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 53 minutes ago

I knew Dance Dance Revolution was good for something!

[–] NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Shows just how important it is to learn from your country's history

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Other countries too.

[–] slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago

I just stayed in the east for a few days. Nazis are openly wearing their identifiers there. Saw a couple and instantly knew they were Nazis: Both in the same Lo-NS-dale jackets, boots, the guy with the classic short hair trim plus to make it obvious for even the dumbest person he had a belt striped horizontically in black white red.

[–] varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, found both my grandparents who said they didn't know anything and were afraid to act back then.

[–] ranslite@pie.dasneuland.de 14 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
[–] porter70000@fedia.io 3 points 2 hours ago
[–] lauha@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If nationality == german:
return true

[–] ranslite@pie.dasneuland.de 2 points 3 hours ago

sad Sophie Scholl noises

[–] statelesz@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 hours ago

It just defaults to "Yes".