The only people invested in posting pictures of their grandparents in nazi uniforms and saying "not a nazi" are nazis.
Every normal person with these kinds of photos simply would not be invested in making such a post.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
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It's really damn weird like I don't have any pictures of my grandparents sitting around and even if I did I wouldn't feel compelled to post them
if my grandma was one of those wing walkers i'd be posting that shit everywhere but she wasn't so i can't.
People really are still using the clean wehrmacht myth in 2025 huh
Clean Wehrmacht? keep up, they gave a SS soldier a standing ovation 2 years ago, they're doing clean SS now
It's the only thing their grandfather left them when he passed.
He apparently never talked about his time in the military, if for not this photo and relatives gossip we maybe wouldn't even know he served
Not a Nazi, but didn't want anyone to know he was in the Nazi army. The use of the term ”served” here is pretty fucked up.
I wonder if any of the Redditors thanked him for his service like they did in the Nazi grandfather ama
Wtf why are reddit users like that
Because most are American, and most Americans are conditioned to say "thank you for your service" when they hear someone was in the military. Plus the Nazis & Wehrmacht weren't vilified to the same extent as say, the Japanese were. In fact the Wehrmacht were whitewashed after the war, playing down their role in the Holocaust & mass killings in order to rehabilitate west Germany into a liberal anti-communist bastion.
So the American Redditor reads someone fought the Soviets (which they have also been indoctrinated to hate) and concludes: person in military + fought America's enemy = "thank you for your service".
This also applies to Americans Lite (Canadians), they hear some guy fought the Soviets in WW2 and whaddya know they're giving a standing ovation to a literal nazi
i hate both sides. anyway i'm gonna go fight to the death to defend one side (the nazis) (not a nazi though)
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Also OP
In no war ever was a good side. Especially in WW2, yeah Germany did some bad shit, but so did the others
Vietnam and Korea just to name a couple besides WWII.
Especially ww2? The war with probably the most universally agreed upon bad side cause they were cartoonishly evil?
So many Nazi sympathiers in that thread. Fuckin' everyone is coming out of the woodwork to make excuses for this guy and help OP defend it.
Good job reddit I expect nothing, yet you continue to disappoint me.
liberals love the "he was forced to fight for the wehrmacht but he was one of the good ones" so much because they enjoy a politics of having to make tough compromises
Just excuses for the bootlickers in their life. Crazy how intense American propaganda has cooked everyone's brains
Gonna be making excuses for the people joining ICE because "they needed to pay their bills" by the next election.
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I've tried really hard to completely cut reddit out of my life, but it sucks because there's pockets of it with information I need and it's gatekept by some of the worst most smug insufferable nazis on the planet.
I'm in the same boat, I got banned off of reddit about a month ago and I had to create a new account in order to view some stuff for a computer project I was working on.
Lemmy is really, really good, but there are still some small communities missing from here.
My bet that he was Volksdeutsche. Germans didn't trust collaborators to serve as tank crews unless they were considered German too.
He had to have German citizenship to be in wehrmacht. To be fair some minorities like Silesians and Kaszubs were automatically assigned those and then conscripted, but this guy being a Lithuanian i suspect he was literally a Lithuanian German and while he could be conscriped, but Lithuanians did not authomatically got German citizenship, he needed to either have it even before the war or apply after occupation of LSSR by Germany.
Read that as VolksDouche at first. Thought some fun new Nazi insult dropped while I was busy.
Why are people so defensive. Like you could just post a picture of your grandpa near a tank. Potentially an interesting historical glimpse. Why do you personally need to make sure gramps wasn't a Nazi and that everyone knows. So what... Sins of the Father and all that. Unless you're a Nazi wannabe yourself.
We have pictures of my grandma on display in my house. People will be like "Who's that?" and I'll reply "Oh that's my grandma. She was a racist, misogynistic, anti-semite."
I don't get why people always feel the need to defend their shitty relatives. But I might have a personality disorder IDK
I mean exactly. Like remember them, look at old photos, etc. History is interesting... Often even mundane history is interesting. But why pretend it is different than it was?
Maybe just the autism speaking. I do not understand this need to deceive
I don't think it's entirely the autism speaking, a lot of people put an incredible amount of stock in, essentially, blood and soil ideology, especially the blood. It's something I noticed in highschool, that people will treat their family's, and especially their parent's, achievements as their own - taking pride in them and ascribing themselves those same abilities. That then extends to treating their family's shame as their own personal shames, so like this, they try to hide or excuse it - "I'm not a nazi, so my grandfather couldn't have been".
I think autism made it more obvious for me, but plenty of neurotypicals aren't like that, whether they notice others are or not.
And plenty of autistic people get real weird about it too. I've met an autistic Nazi before who was perversely interested in tracking family genealogy because that's what he was hyper interested in. Like, he'd do family trees for other people based on snooping without them knowing about it. I'm not sure what came first, chicken or the egg, but one hand sure washed the other when it came to the hobby and the political beliefs, that's for sure.
I think it's a pretty astute observation at the underlying ideology at work here. Whether we're taken by that meta narrative of self-identity or not though isn't connected to one's cognitive neuro-spicy level I don't think, it's just brain worms that'll take root in any soil as people try to develop a sense of identity and community and aren't given the tools to understand themselves as part of a class so instead kludge together something based on individualistic narratives.
in-group bullshit goes brrrrrr
My grandmother started telling me the crime problem in American cities is because of all the black people.
I tried arguing the point, so she called me a "removed-lover," so I punched her in the head. And that was how I ended up homeless, originally.
No regrets (except maybe that I should have punched her harder, I guess), but there are some practical reasons people tend to fall all over themselves to defend the hands that feed them, as it were.
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Why are people so defensive.
People are defensive when their grandparents are provably nazis.
Yes I see that but my question is why? I'm not my grandpa. My grandpa crewed bombers in WW2 for America. If it transpired he bombed a hospital full of babies I wouldn't feel the need to prove he was a good guy or something.
More of a question of human psychology than one I expect an easy answer to.
Sorry I was being snarky to the redditor. I didn't mean to be snarky towards you.
It's the cognitive dissonance and/or backfire effect. People hate feeling wrong or evil, and they get emotional and defensive when some facts says "this dude is bad", even if the evidence is quite overwhelming.
I believe that leftists are less prone to this, although not immune. We spent time ridding ourselves of bad ideology that we picked up as kids. Liberals have a lot of cracks in their ideological armour, lots of places they're secretly afraid that they're wrong, but unwilling to admit to themselves.
Edit: what I mean to say is that the idea that this redditor is related to a Nazi, or himself a Nazi, is secretly quite painful to him.
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Definitely not a Nazi, just someone the Nazis trusted to operate a highly valuable and destructive piece of machinery
So either a Nazi, a rube, or someone so servile they'd serve the Nazis anyway
why would they let a forcefully conscripted soldier drive one of their most powerful land weapons
I hate the "clean Wehrmacht" bullshit so much. I think Americans cling to it so they can believe Afghanistan and Iraq veterans didn't basically commit a war crime simply by participating in illegal wars
"the IDF weren't dedicated Zionists and didn't want to commit genocide, they were just brave, loyal soldiers following orders" - something I guarantee people will say 70 years from now.
Wearing a nazi uniform, driving a nazi tank, fighting for the NAZI SIDE. Not a nazi 
People are asking a lot of questions about the "not a nazi" shirt I photoshopped onto this picture of a nazi
My grandpa was a misogynist turd. But he dropped bombs on fascists in WW2 and gave up his arms to Yugoslavian partisans when they crashlanded there. Better then this guys grandpa who was a Nazi
if you have a grandparent who was an adult in WWII you'd probably be in your 50s or 60s now. But looking at this person's profile they're clearly a kid who is obsessed with tanks. So I was gonna say gen z is cooked. then i was like wait a minute... then i took a look and can conclude gen z is cooked.
I'm 30 and my grandpa served in WW2, same with my 22 year old brother. My dad was the baby of the family and didn't start having kids until he was 30. I understand that i am th exception here, and not the rule though.
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NOT A NAZI
All evidence seems to point to the contrary
He seems like a zoomer kid very into military vehicles, updoots and denial.
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