[jmacusa]

Screw him. He was part of a nation that sought to dominate the world. Have a thought to all those he sent to the bottom.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

He didn't wake up and decide to dominate the world, he heard his country's call and answered it in a capacity few had the bravery for and even fewer survived. Bear in mind that essentially everything that we know about the Holocaust and other horrible things perpetrated by the Nazis were virtually unknown at the time.

Having had the privilege of meeting and hearing many WW2 vets, including several now deceased in my own family, something frequently mentioned was the sense that many of the young men who killed each other, in other circumstances, could have been good friends.

This guy fought, and now he goes to his maker as we all will.

[Rockingham]

My ultimate sympathies are also with merchant mariners, among them my father, a Kings Point grad, and an uncle who was on the North Atlantic run during WW II. For a brief moment, Germany’s U-boats nearly put Britain out of the war, but on the net, they proved to be obsolete and a waste of lives and military effort.

[Textide]

Yes, in the post Nazi world, very few admitted being Nazis. It really doesn’t matter in his case if he considered himself one: sinking Allied ships did Nazi bidding.

His descendents now share a country with Islamists and Leftists though, so there’s that.