OUCH! 😳 (X & Text) Colbert: "Do not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis.

[Cirsium]

25. I'm surprised

I'm surprised and disgusted that anyone would try to split that hair.

Wehrmacht officers swore personal allegiance to Adolph Hitler, the leader of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - the "Nazi" party.

"We weren't technically members of the Nazi party" is the very foundation of the clean Wehrmacht myth.

Not much solace to the victims. "Don't worry, your executioners are not members of the party."

During World War II, the German military helped fulfill Nazism's racial, political, and territorial ambitions. Long after the war, a myth persisted claiming the German military (or Wehrmacht) was not involved in the Holocaust and other crimes associated with Nazi genocidal policy. This belief is untrue. The German military participated in many aspects of the Holocaust: in supporting Hitler, in the use of forced labor, and in the mass murder of Jews and other groups targeted by the Nazis.

The military’s complicity extended not only to the generals and upper leadership but also to the rank and file. In addition, the war and genocidal policy were inextricably linked. The German army (or Heer) was the most complicit as a result of being on the ground in Germany’s eastern campaigns, but all branches participated.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-german-military-and-the-holocaust