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[deleted] t1_iu6kyad wrote

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elixier t1_iu6rg9v wrote

I think the downside is one was a Nazi supporter and collaborator given the nickname Hyena of the Gestapo

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nightcitytrashcan t1_iu7x5og wrote

Those nicknames... These people were the scum of the earth, but these names make them sound like comic book characters.

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[deleted] t1_iu8f137 wrote

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elixier t1_iu8hfnb wrote

Her torturing may possibly be embellished but she was a Nazi collaborator and spent years assisting the Gestapo willingly in other ways

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[deleted] t1_iu8jx65 wrote

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elixier t1_iu8ltdl wrote

I don't get your obsession with defending a Nazi sympathiser, she's not a War historian by the way either, she's an art historian through and through.

When historians who actually dedicate their lives to the war era say she assisted the Nazis, with the ONLY debabatable part of it being the tortures, I'm not going to look at a source written by an author who is clearly in the high risk category for bias, who isn't a specialist in the area. We know for a fact she worked to supply Nazi troops. We know she was Hitlers honoured guest at the Olympics. We know she was considered at the time a member of the French wing of the Gestapo. The fact the resistance, who risked their lives to free France considered her a priority target should speak to the fact she was obviously more than a basic sympathiser. Was she a torturer, who knows. But the fact you brush of even basic sympathiser is fucking disgusting. "Basic" Nazi sympathisers still deserve the electric chair. Fuck glorifying Nazis or their supporters, no matter how basic

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