The fixation on Nazis is odd to me. One will even find Nazis depicted in the Twilight Zone and Star Trek (Original Series) episodes. Stalin was also bad. Mao was bad. Pol Pot was bad. The Confederates were bad. The french Catholics who terrorized protestants were bad. Why is it fasionable to focus on Nazis? It is strange to me since human history is filled with bad guys. Maybe you have a thought or an answer.
Well we really didn't fight those other guys, and when American troops faced Chinese & Korean indentures near the Yalu, the result was embarrassing. Also remember that before WW2 Americas used the Bellamy salute during the Pledge and this bore too much similarity to the German seig heil, so it was discontinued. I'm convinced that there were major cultural changes in America owing to our engagement with the Germans in WW2, including Operation Paperclip, of course. About 11,000 German nationals were sent to internment camps.
You want a dystopia that'll turn your stomach (and thank God nobody's made a video game out of the series) , try the Draka novels by S.M. Stirling. I read them back in the early 1980s and it put me off Stirling for about ten years until I saw that he'd collaborated with Jerry Pournelle on the Helot War novels. I've read a fair number of dystopias in my time, but the world of the Draka is the worst crapsack world ever.
The fixation on Nazis is odd to me. One will even find Nazis depicted in the Twilight Zone and Star Trek (Original Series) episodes. Stalin was also bad. Mao was bad. Pol Pot was bad. The Confederates were bad. The french Catholics who terrorized protestants were bad. Why is it fasionable to focus on Nazis? It is strange to me since human history is filled with bad guys. Maybe you have a thought or an answer.
Well we really didn't fight those other guys, and when American troops faced Chinese & Korean indentures near the Yalu, the result was embarrassing. Also remember that before WW2 Americas used the Bellamy salute during the Pledge and this bore too much similarity to the German seig heil, so it was discontinued. I'm convinced that there were major cultural changes in America owing to our engagement with the Germans in WW2, including Operation Paperclip, of course. About 11,000 German nationals were sent to internment camps.
You want a dystopia that'll turn your stomach (and thank God nobody's made a video game out of the series) , try the Draka novels by S.M. Stirling. I read them back in the early 1980s and it put me off Stirling for about ten years until I saw that he'd collaborated with Jerry Pournelle on the Helot War novels. I've read a fair number of dystopias in my time, but the world of the Draka is the worst crapsack world ever.
Impressive (but unsurprising) that you could make ruminations based on games so interesting to a nongamer such as myself.