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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8027928" data-attributes="member: 6788736"><p>Oh yeah for sure. The truly good among them, would have refused conscription or refused evil orders. Likely at great personal (i.e. execution or concentration camps) cost.</p><p></p><p>Irwin Rommel for example defied Hitler and the 'Commando' orders (a 'no mercy' order), as did a fair few other commanders.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Rommel-ignore-an-order-directing-German-generals-to-execute-the-Allied-commandos-caught-behind-enemy-lines#:~:text=Rommel%20told%20his%20soldiers%20that,as%20they%20would%20regular%20POWs" target="_blank">Why did Rommel ignore an order directing German generals to execute the Allied commandos caught behind enemy lines? - Quora</a>.</p><p></p><p>I have no doubt that the Nazi Wehrmacht was comprised of good men, evil men, and everything in between (like all armies are). The regime they served was undoubtedly evil in the extreme, but it would be equally cartoonish and simplistic in the extreme to label the men themselves as all equally evil.</p><p></p><p>The Rifts game does this really well, by examining the mindset of the 'typical' soldier of the Pseudo-Nazis in that game (the Coalition of man). Those dudes are human supremacists and fascists. It explores how many of them are good people, that have been exposed to actual demons coming to earth and horrifically murdering whole towns, and dealing with monsters and necromancers etc, and how a great many of those Pseudo-Nazis see themselves as heroes and good men (and in some cases, are in fact good men).</p><p></p><p>From their perspective, they're defending Earth and Humanity from invaders from other dimensions; even when they're rounding up entire villages of kindly elves or aliens, and incinerating them with plasma.</p><p></p><p>Obviously, the dudes that hold that view are evil. It's that (in their eyes) they arent.</p><p></p><p>There are the Fascist soldiers that are human supremacists and OK with genocide and enjoy it (Evil) the Fascist soldiers that see it as a necessary evil and go along with it anyway, or justify thier actions as being good (Evil), and the Fascist soldiers that have seen aliens, demons and horrors erupt from the Rifts, and are genuinely fighting among those creatures (turning a blind eye to goodly aliens and benevolent entities from the rifts) who are Good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 8027928, member: 6788736"] Oh yeah for sure. The truly good among them, would have refused conscription or refused evil orders. Likely at great personal (i.e. execution or concentration camps) cost. Irwin Rommel for example defied Hitler and the 'Commando' orders (a 'no mercy' order), as did a fair few other commanders. [URL='https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Rommel-ignore-an-order-directing-German-generals-to-execute-the-Allied-commandos-caught-behind-enemy-lines#:~:text=Rommel%20told%20his%20soldiers%20that,as%20they%20would%20regular%20POWs']Why did Rommel ignore an order directing German generals to execute the Allied commandos caught behind enemy lines? - Quora[/URL]. I have no doubt that the Nazi Wehrmacht was comprised of good men, evil men, and everything in between (like all armies are). The regime they served was undoubtedly evil in the extreme, but it would be equally cartoonish and simplistic in the extreme to label the men themselves as all equally evil. The Rifts game does this really well, by examining the mindset of the 'typical' soldier of the Pseudo-Nazis in that game (the Coalition of man). Those dudes are human supremacists and fascists. It explores how many of them are good people, that have been exposed to actual demons coming to earth and horrifically murdering whole towns, and dealing with monsters and necromancers etc, and how a great many of those Pseudo-Nazis see themselves as heroes and good men (and in some cases, are in fact good men). From their perspective, they're defending Earth and Humanity from invaders from other dimensions; even when they're rounding up entire villages of kindly elves or aliens, and incinerating them with plasma. Obviously, the dudes that hold that view are evil. It's that (in their eyes) they arent. There are the Fascist soldiers that are human supremacists and OK with genocide and enjoy it (Evil) the Fascist soldiers that see it as a necessary evil and go along with it anyway, or justify thier actions as being good (Evil), and the Fascist soldiers that have seen aliens, demons and horrors erupt from the Rifts, and are genuinely fighting among those creatures (turning a blind eye to goodly aliens and benevolent entities from the rifts) who are Good. [/QUOTE]
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