Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works to Today I learned@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agoTIL in 1945 after a compulsory viewing of a film on the holocaust, 1000 German POWs at Camp Butner burned their German uniforms in disgusten.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down11cross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
arrow-up134arrow-down1external-linkTIL in 1945 after a compulsory viewing of a film on the holocaust, 1000 German POWs at Camp Butner burned their German uniforms in disgusten.wikipedia.orgColdmoon@sh.itjust.works to Today I learned@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square5fedilinkcross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·3 days agoDid it “in disgust”… but they’d already lost the war and become PoWs, so the cynic in me says they did it out of self-preservation.
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·3 days agoPropaganda value… That’s what this is about. The regime never respected the pedons, they lie to our face and for generations we accepted it. Maybe our gen y and genz can break the severe bootlicker culture… Maybe not. But until that is done, the clown daddies will keep abusing the working folk.
Did it “in disgust”… but they’d already lost the war and become PoWs, so the cynic in me says they did it out of self-preservation.
Propaganda value… That’s what this is about.
The regime never respected the pedons, they lie to our face and for generations we accepted it.
Maybe our gen y and genz can break the severe bootlicker culture… Maybe not.
But until that is done, the clown daddies will keep abusing the working folk.