Thermal
August Member
In another thread, I have already mentioned the Danish stage director Sam Besekow (Wikipedia), the son of Jewish immigrants, who studied theatre history in Munich and Berlin in 1930. He used to tell the story of his old landlady, who liked the young student and invited him to a meeting organized by the Nazis. When he declined, telling her that he was a Jew, the landlady didn't take his no for an answer but insisted that he should come because, "We will be so much more pleased to have you there!"
I.e. she was unaware of purpose of the party of which she was a member.
So yes, there actually are (and were) people like that, but they were obviously few and far between, and after the Nazis took power in Germany, it became increasingly difficult to be ignorant or in denial about what they were.
Another example that I've mentioned before is Hans J. Massaquoi, author of the autobiography Destined to Witness - Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany (Wikipedia), who writes about the time when he wanted to join the Hitler Jugend and wore the Swastika until a Nazi teacher took it from him.
I can recommend the mini series - with subtitles in English:
So we get it! There have been at least two ignorant 'Nazis', the old landlady and a young boy, and there are probably more, but why is it so important to you to stress this fact when 99.9% of people calling themselves Nazis, wearing Nazi symbols and attending Nazi rallies are actual Nazis?
Do you want to make an actual point??!
That is not at all the point I have been sledgehammering. My point is to not hyperbolize a serious description.
Think about it. You have evidently made no attempt to understand my posts, if that is your takeaway. My point is to be realistic if you want credibility. There are, I believe, very very few actual Nazis running around, and a ton of naziish neos and losers who appear to be 'not that bad's when compared to the over-the-top genocidal accusations. We get more points for accuracy than hyperbole