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No, the Nazis are only bound to come to mind whenever a fairly well read person encounters the self same ideas and tropes that the Nazis used to justify not just their state-sponsored genocide of the Jews, but also the mass murder of 500,000 Romani, millions of Soviet civilians and prisoners of war, Poles and others.
Not to mention their systematic murder of over 250,000 mentally and physically disabled individuals via forced starvation, lethal overdoses, and gas chambers.
Their persecution and imprisonment of minorities and dissidents, political opponents, trade unionists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Freemasons, Spanish Republicans in concentration camps.
Or their initiation, and waging of aggressive wars of conquest across Europe and North Africa. Their enslavement of millions of foreign civilians and concentration camp prisoners under brutal conditions. Their human experimentation, horrific medical experiments, forced sterilszations, mass reprises, village massacres, the total destruction of towns and slaughter of civilian populations in reprisal actions, the systematic looting of art, gold (including dental gold), industrial assets, and private property across occupied territories, etc.
Because there was a propaganda that underlay these actions and the acquiescence of the German masses in it. There were rationales based in antisemitism. And other rationales based in pseudo scientific racism and "classifying" the "human species" with bell curves, and statistics, and machines, and databases, treating people like insects, categorising whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people.
So when you hear ignorant fucking morons repeating essentially the self same propaganda, and rationales, and attempting to exonerate Hitler, and refer to him with eurphemisms like "the Austrian painter", and deceitfully introduce all manner of obfuscation in the discussion of these crimes, with obvious intentions, then yes, the Nazis and Hitler are bound to fucking come to mind.
