Chapter Thirty-Three
Unity
Chapter Thirty-Three
"So... These are bad humans, right?" Twilight asked.
"Quite possibly the worst in our entire history as a species." Reginald said. "Germans, as a whole, aren't bad people. They've got their good and their bad the same as any other nationality. And even among the Nazis there were some who knew that what their leaders were doing was wrong and worked against them... But for the most part..."
Nigel said "Think of it this way Twilight... Imagine if a small group of unicorns decided that unicorns were better than other types of ponies. And so they took over and started imprisoning and enslaving and even killing everyone who wasn't a unicorn."
"That's dreadful." Rarity whispered.
"These people were a part of bringing on the most destructive war in human history." Reginald said. "The only thing I can't figure is how a whole city of them is here. The war ended with the Nazi's defeat over seventy years ago!"
"Well we know now that the storms have been bringing people here for a very long time..." Twilight mused.
"Did any of these Nazi's towns just vanish during that war?" Applejack asked.
"Not that we've heard of." Bert answered. "Then again, in the thick of total war, with entire towns being firebombed off the map anyway... I suppose if someplace did just vanish it could be dismissed as enemy action."
"It's been seventy years though right?" Xix asked. "Maybe they've changed in that time?"
"People usually no change until forced to." Guttrix said.
"That's a good point, I'm afraid." Twilight agreed.
"Either way, I think the best thing for us to do is just move on along, get out of here before they notice us." Herbert said.
Everyone agreed, and they made ready to continue on their way. But just as Herbert was throttling up the engines, a distant sound caught everyone's attention. A low droning buzz, growing louder.
"What is that?" Fluttershy asked.
Specks came into view over the horizon, getting larger, closer. "Meserschmitts." Bert said. "Upgraded somewhat from war era models but the basic shape is the same."
"Upgraded... Or they found enough supplies to build new ones."
"Either way, they're coming right for us."
"Not again." Rainbow grumbled.
But as the planes drew nearer, they didn't attack. The entire flight, thirty aircraft in all, continued on their way passing over Harmony's location, vectoring in the direction of the abandoned city.
"Why would they be going there?" Nigel wondered.
"I don't like this. We don't have enough information to understand the situation." Twilight said. "We should follow, keep at a safe distance, see what's going on."
"Agreed." Herbert said, and turned to follow...
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Reich Sergeant Richtoffin wasn't sure what he was seeing. Flying in route to the target, he had looked down and caught sight of a strange vessel, seemingly a boat suspended in mid-air. He radioed his wingman. "Karloff, do you see that?"
"Ja. Thought I was hallucinating until you said something."
"I feared the same. I'll report it."
"Nevermind that. We've got enough to deal with. If you report it, they'll tell one of us to stay and get a better look. Then we'll be short handed. You can report the sighting when we get back."
"If we get back."
"Ja."
Richtoffin returned his attention to the mission at hand, though in the back of his mind he also wondered, for the ten thousandth time, what he might have done to earn this crummy hand in life.
It was seventy-two years ago, at the height of the great war, when his grandparents took shelter in the town of Steusseldorf. It was, of course, technically a military target: The presence of both a Luftwaffe airstrip and multiple factories insured that. But it was also much smaller than the more significant cities being actively bombed at the time, and they hoped to find safety.
What they found, instead, was a unfathomable force ripping them away from their world and all they knew. At least the place where they ended up was sustainable. Good croplands, and plenty of raw materials to keep their machines repaired and running, and eventually even to start building again. At first, it seemed like paradise. They were free of the war, and many even considered abandoning their loyalty to the party. And then they found the city...
The city. 'Das Geisterstadt' they called it, 'Ghost City,' though 'Hollestadt,' 'Hell City,' would have been even better. The war against it's eldritch horrors was all Richtoffin and his generation had ever known, all the people of Steusseldorf had know for seven decades now. A lifetime of war, terror, and death. A lifetime that ended today. The weapons, long completed save for a single key component, finally supplied, ensured that much. This ended today.
Ahead, the city came into view. "Everyone focus." Richtoffin ordered. "They could wake up at any moment. Remember, at least one of the weapons must be delivered, no matter the cost."
On Richtoffin's command, the planes dived down towards the city, accelerating. And before their eyes, a third of the city's buildings seemed to disintegrate into dust as the inhabitants awoke. For the buildings were not structures to contain them; They were the beings of this place, bizarre entities, like perfectly geometrical insects of all sizes, thousands of them, swarming up to defend the nest.
The planes evaded as best they could, opening fire on the swarms in their path, needing only seconds more to descend to the proper altitude to release the new weapons they carried slung under their bellies. One pilot screamed as his plane was ripped apart, and another, a third. And then it was time. The weapons were cut loose and the pilots poured everything their engines had into a probably fruitless escape run.
Ascending again, Richtoffin looked back over his shoulder. The bad: He was still being pursued. The good: The entities were ignoring the falling bombs. Just as they should, based on past experience. Normal bombs might damage a small area, but did little harm to the city as a whole. This would be different. Oh, it had to be different this time. It just had to be.
Leveling off, Richtoffin made a run for it, hoping beyond all hope to just maybe get clear, before-
XXXX
At a distance of several miles, flying near a steep ridge line for concealment, Harmony's crew was observing when several of the city's buildings seemed to evaporate away in a moment. "Damn! What the hell was that!?" Bert swore.
Observing through the binoculars, Twilight said "The buildings! They aren't really buildings, they're some kind of creatures!"
"If Nazis are attacking them, doesn't that make them the good guys?" Nigel asked.
Rainbow shook her head. "I kinda think maybe there are no good guys here."
Above the city, planes exploded, while others continued to dive, and then Twilight said "The planes, they've dropped something!"
"Let me see." Bert said, taking the binoculars. Looking, he needed a moment to find one of the falling objects. He was watching as it deployed a parachute, and began to slowly drift down towards the city. In fact, the more he looked at it, the more it looked like... Bert swung around, locked eyes on the nearby ridge that rose steeply from the surrounding area. "Herb! Get that ridge between us and the city and do it yesterday!"
"Whoa! What's going on?" Belle asked.
"Just do it!" Bert exclaimed as Herbert, seeming to understand what the survivalist was upset about, pushed the engines to full speed, racing to top the ridge and duck down behind it. Everyone else was talking over each other, asking questions, and Bert raised his voice, booming over them all, "Twilight! We need the strongest shield you can put up! Hopefully it'll be enough."
Something in Bert's voice discouraged arguing or questions. Twilight nodded and began to cast, the violet shimmer of a magical shield popping into view all around the Harmony just as they ducked in behind the ridge.
"Will you tell us what all this is about now?" Applejack asked.
"You'll see any time now." Bert answered. "Everyone hold on tight..."
Five seconds passed. Ten. As Twilight was on the verge of asking again what this had all been about, the blast came. A blinding flash of light came from beyond the ridge, everything shook violently, and the sound was so intense she had to lay her ears back and all the way down to protect them.On and on the roar and the surging wind went, until after what felt like hours but had probably only been a couple of minutes, calm returned.
"Damn." Bert swore. "That was lucky, it wasn't as bad as I expected."
"You call that not bad!?" Rainbow exclaimed.
"Compared to what it could have been, yeah." Bert replied. "That was something atomic. We're just lucky that it must have been fission based. Fusion weapons are so much more powerful we wouldn't be here if that's what it had been."
Looking up from the Geiger counter he now held, Nigel said "The ridge must be protecting us so far, I'm only reading slightly elevated radiation levels. But that's not going to keep. We should get the hell out of here in a hurry."
Herbert returned to the controls and began to pilot them away from the city, keeping the ridge between them, while Twilight asked "What in the world have we stumbled into here?" No one had an answer.
xx
Half an hour and many miles further along, Nigel announced that radiation levels had returned to normal. "That was fast." Bert mused.
"Very." Twilight agreed. Looking towards the front of the Airship, she saw Fluttershy looking over the edge of the port railing, and trotted to her side. "Are you okay?"
"I don't know." the pegasus answered. "So much violence... I know it's a part of the world, but..."
"But it still hurts to see it."
"Yeah... I mean, to imagine what just happened... So much death..." Fluttershy's eyes were wet with tears.
Twilight put a foreleg over her friend's shoulders, hugged her tightly. "We'll be okay."
"I hope so..." Fluttershy went silent as she stared down at the ground below. "Twilight, do you see that?"
"I sure do." Twilight answered. She called back to the others "Hey! Take a look at this!"
As everyone else looked, they saw the shattered remains of an aircraft that had plowed into the ground. It was still smoking, and an obviously injured figure was was trying to crawl away.
"Bad guy or not, we've got to help him!" Fluttershy said.
"Ordinarily I'd pass with people as disagreeable as Nazis." Reginald said. "But if we do, maybe we can get some answers."
As the crawling figure collapsed, Herbert guided Harmony down to the surface. Unconscious, the man was carried aboard, and tended to while they lifted back off and away from the crash site. Twilight went ahead and cast the translation spell while the man was asleep; Easier than trying it on an awake and potentially beligerant target. And then they waited...
xx
Sergeant Richtoffin awoke with a headache and a parched throat. At first he was concerned, but decided that this at least confirmed that he was indeed alive. Opening his eyes, sitting up, the first thing he saw was a bright pink horse staring at him. "Hi!" It said, and Richtoffin screamed and jumped back, backpeddeling until he slammed into a wall.
"I see you've met Pinkie." A new voice said. A man stepped into view. "Bert Gumbal. And you are...?"
"I... Reich Sergeant Gregor Richtoffin, Luftwaffe Expeditionary Force... Who are you? Why is a horse talking? What is going on!?"
"Pony." The Pink one said.
"We're on an exploratory mission, just passing through." Bert said. "But we saw you bombing that city, and we'd surely like to know what the hell is going on around here."
Bert and Pinkie led Richtoffin to the airship's outside deck, where everyone else was waiting. He looked about at the odd mix of humans and others, and asked "So what is this then!? Am I a prisoner?"
"Not at all Sergeant. We'll let you go, unharmed. All we want is answers. After all, from what we can tell it seems like your town has been here a very long time, while ours only just arrived a few months ago."
"You are from Earth then? Very well, I will tell you our story, in exchange for yours."
Bert nodded, and the Sergeant told them of the town's arrival, the early days before they managed to find the resources to survive, and how his grandparent's generation had pulled together and and prospered. "In those early days," Richtoffin said, "there were even many who, I'm embarrassed to admit, were ready to abandon feality to the reich. But then, two years after they arrived, they found that city. That horrid city. Tell me, is it destroyed!?"
"We think so, but we didn't risk the radiation to get a better look." Twilight said.
Belle asked "What's so horrid about it?"
"Yes dear, what happened between your people and those creatures?"
"You've seen the creatures and you have to ask? They are unnatural! Evil! They have no right to exist, except as slaves to the Reich! And as they would not yield, they must be destroyed!"
Richtoffin's words were cut off by a now furious yellow pegasus hovering in his face, glaring daggers, demanding "You killed them just because they weren't like you!? That's all!? They never did anything to you at first did they!?"
The pilot lashed out, knocking Fluttershy away, demanding of Bert "Control your slaves!"
"Slaves?" Rainbow Dash slammed Richtoffin down. "We're no one's slaves!"
"These are our friends and allies Sergeant." Nigel said. "Not our slaves."
"But what kind of good Aryans..." Richtoffin paused. "He was telling the truth."
"Who was telling the truth?"
Richtoffin smiled. "The gift-giver. That's what the party is calling him for the papers and the history books anyway. You see, early on in the war, we figured out that conventional bombs were useless. They just didn't do enough damage. So, some of the scientists took what data we had on atomics and developed them until they had designed a working device. That was nearly thirty years ago of course; we had everything we needed but the fissile material. For thirty years the weapons sat, finished but for one last ingredient. Then, a few days ago, he came. A man like you or me, sick, dying, driving a machine, a walking machine, like in Mister Well's famous book..."
"Carl!"
"He did make it past the ocean!"
"Where is he?"
"Dead." Richtoffin said. Seeing the looks on their faces, he held up his hands. "Not us, I give you my word on that. He was sick. Severe radiation poisoning they called it. He lasted only a few hours. Long enough to tell us about the town where people and things live together. And then we examined his machine. And by the Fuhere, what did we find?"
"You opened the heat rays. Found the radioisotope." Twilight whispered.
"Yes. Not Uranium or Plutonium. Something unknown, but still potent. And with the gift, at long last we readied our weapons, and destroyed our enemies!" Richtoffin laughed, but from the back of the group Applejack spoke.
"I'm not so sure of that." She said. "Listen."
Everyone listened, and heard a deep thrumming buzz. "What the heck?" Nigel asked.
Richtoffin's face went rigid with fear. "No! No it can't be! That's the sound of them! Of their wings! How can they be alive!?"
"Most of them probably aren't." Bert said. "But like we found out on Earth, when the first uranium bomb was detonated there, you can get survivors remarkably close to even a large blast."
"Not just survivors..." Fluttershy whispered sadly. "Revengers. They're swarming straight towards your town."
"No!"
"Oh yes. She's right." Bert said.
"So what do we do then?" Rainbow asked.
"We move on." Herbert said. "There's nothing we could do against that but get ourselves killed."
"B...But..."
"Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind." Bert said. "I'm sorry, but it's how it is."
"And what of me?" Richtoffin asked.
"We said we'd let you go unharmed. We will."
As the Nazi pilot was escorted off the ship, Fluttershy pressed a small aid kit into his hands and whispered "There will be people needing help. Go to them."
On the ground, Richtoffin started to run towards his home, then stopped for a moment. He looked up and asked "The gift-giver died before he could tell us... On Earth, what has become of the Reich?"
"It's where it belongs." Bert answered honestly, "Dead and buried. Along with all the other failures..."
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Awww, Carl dead. Pity though about the nazi town, even if they have bad viewpoint.
welp that happend
Carl is ded, finally.
So long story short... that nazi town was left to die sad ....but fair
Lotta people smoking crack in these comments... what with saying the Nazi's getting wiped out is sad, or a pity.
6423333 Thank goodness!
There is always at least one in any group that will behave like Carl...or Blue Blood.
In any survival situation those are the people you watch out for not just because they are unstable, but because they can lead others along their path of madness.
As much as I dislike Nazis, I hope that not everyone in the town got killed.
6423381 this certain group was as much a victim as every being in these (so far) three rings. They just had a bad outlook on anything different.
Ok, the Nazis were bad and I'm happy they lost the war. That's me stating it as German. But the worst? Nazis aren't eldritch abominations, or evil incarnate. They aren't in a league of their own. After all, they weren't the first to commit genocides and they weren't the last. Just open a history book.
Yes, this might not be the author's opinion. It still grates on me.
6423446 No nonono, they were victims, they started to go right, then they chose to be hate mongering bigoted trash.
6423453 They were the most recent. And the most successful, what with the greater power provided by the more advanced technology. With their primitive means the likes of Niro and Caligula just weren't capable of doing as much damage and thus leaving as strong an impression... especially so many centuries later.
On the one hand, it seems likely the Nazis started conflict with bug town. On the other hand fuck bugs and everything they stand for.
Except we now have Nazis who know about Unity. Oh boy. Here's hoping they used all their fissile material, or the Revengers will wipe them out.
6423383 - Those are the kind of people that I want to kill immediately.
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If I might interject, I believe that they're not really thinking about them a Nazis but as people and as people in crisis situations like this with not so many deaths every day because of the short supply, it hits harder, because there aren't many humans around, how many people do you think would have given a shit when Hershel or Glenn died on The Walking Dead (comics) if they were just two in the crowd of billions? just close relatives and family, but now it hits harder, because the apocalypse brings out the best and worst in select few, in this case the humans of unity have very few vendettas remaining given their isolation, they don't see Colour, they see people, they don't see Religion, they see people, they don't see Nazis, they see people, I guess I am ranting though... XD (yes, I take this story as an apocalyptic scenario)
6423453 True. The National Socialists killed 11 million in its time. Communism, on the other hand, murdered 94 million of their own people in the 20th century. Saddam Hussein slaughtered at least half a million of his own people: they're still finding mass graves to this day. And the Islamic death toll.... well, just counting terrorist style attacks, it's up to 25,000 just since 9-11-01.
But thanks to history, deserved or not, the Nazis have become the metric standard for evil. Probably because it was the last time all of the allegedly "good" nations gave up their quibbling and cowardice and united to eradicate a great and terrible evil--- rather than hiding it behind a wall and hoping it would go away.
On a side note, it's easy to forget that it wasn't just the racism of the Reich that made it evil. The reich was a national socialist government: it was only "right wing" in that it was to the immediate right of Karl Marx. They destroyed private industry, turning it into the property of the state. They burned books, eradicating knowledge and history. They despised religion and sought to eradicate it. Like all collective, totalitarian regimes they executed dissidents and 'counterrevolutionaries' by the score... and simply being too obviously educated and/or religious was proof of that. All men and women were slaves of the state, and children were it's property. Even if you were an "aryan" it was a shitty system to live under.
I can't help but feel bad for that guy. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Nazi sympathizer or anything, (I do like most of their stuff though) but the whole city being devastated, jeez. I hope some people get out alright.
And Carl died, wow... hmm.... Cooooorrrrraaaal.
Nice job on this!
6423589 'They despised religion' Then what's with 'god with us' being on their uniforms among a whole host of other things?
6423572 Exactly!
Its not about being sadistic or blood thirsty it is about the simple survival of you and your family.
I mean just look at how many people died because of Carl's stupidity...
Blue Blood will no doubt do something equally stupid.
The Sabaton song Wehrmacht comes to mind for this towns situation.
6423381 loss of life is loss of life. Its still sad. Even the worst of people have some good in them. unfortunately it seems like these Nazis where all raised to hate all that was different and knew nothing but hate. i bet there where also childen in that town.
There must have been some crazy linguistic drift in those seventy years.
COME ON!! Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht joins Unity!! (Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht, not Nazis) Panzers, Tigers, Focke Wolf 190s, Bf 109s, ect. The Germans were Awesome in World War II (not counting the Nazi Atrocities) The Germans Fought America, England, and Russia, and Held out.
Look up the Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown Incident. Also, Erwin Rommel.
Still no Inkopolis and Octo Valley... Then again, I want them to appear close to Unity
This is getting crazy with all the crossovers that are happening. What's next, Pokemon? Oops, I might have just jinxed it.
I think the Nazis should be something like the Anti-Heroes. They were once the bad guys but band together with the other factions against a greater threat.
Nazis can provide a large boost in technology and strategy.
Er...
The German village was at war with a city of some kind of extremely alien bug-things.
I sure hope they just won. Because I don't think the Bugs care much about human politics and they're not likely to make distinctions when or if they meet humans again. They are likely to regard humans as an aggressive immediate threat, and act accordingly.
Look at it from their perspective. Or reverse the roles, if that makes it easier for you. Let's say that the Bugs had just attacked our protagonists' town and nearly destroyed it. Months or years later, the survivors meet identical-looking Bugs again. If it is even possible to communicate at all--which is a big "if"--then I am not sure they'd be likely to believe claims like "oh, those Bugs were from a different hive and completely different from us." How many humans would even try to communicate a second time? Or is "Oh crap, they're back! Kill them all!" a more likely reaction?
This seems to have the potential to come back and bite Burt & Co. on their collective butts in the future. I'm just saying. They've spent the previous 30+ chapters being a lot smarter than this.
6423332 Probably the most insightful commentary that can be given. Is there even an ending planned or is this going to just keep dragging on?
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Hem they believed to be Gods ^^
Something tells the that the sergeant and his town are going to make the same end of the Reich...hope you have enough suicide capsules.
6424111 I really, really doubt it.
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Probably i exaggerated with that, however they behaved like they thought they were gods...thinking that they could decide for the world and who lives and who doesn't.
And by the way most surely all these "religious" writings on their uniforms were propaganda void of any faith.
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'Most surely' based on... what? And is it really just propaganda if the vast majority of them are buying into it?
6424294 the "Most surely" is because nazi and Christian can't be in the same phrase without an odd number of negations.
And also it was propaganda because its only function was to lure people into the Nazis ranks, if the vast majority of them bought into it means that it just worked.
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Please do PM me about that. I'm dying to hear your justification.
6424355 Done
6423714 I believe that is in reference to a Papal Edict in favor of Germany. The Vatican did verbally support Germany in both World Wars after all.
6424355
Remember also that it wasn't just Jewish people the Nazis killed; they went after Catholics in large numbers too. And don't forget Deitrich Bonhoffer, who was executed for refusing to support the Nazi regime and who famously said "It's hard to say 'Hiel Hitler' in a message about the sermon on the mount." The Nazis may have tried to paint themselves as a Christian movement but their leadership was strongly into old occult beliefs.
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Almost there. Three chapters to go, they'll be at the center next week.
6424501 The Nazi leadership was weird. The rank and file though...
6423714 Because when you're taking over a country from the inside, its important to know what rhetoric to flaunt to fool the plebes. Like, say, doing lots of photo shoots of yourself walking in and out of a church with a big, black bible prominently tucked under your arm, a la Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal...
Submitted that the Soviet Union even had religious rights chalked up in their constitution. Didn't cramp their style one bit... they still sent countless thousands to the gulags for belonging to "illegal" christian churches. The Nazis were the same... Of the 11 million people killed during the Holocaust, six million were Polish citizens. Three million were Polish Jews and another three million were Polish Christians. Most of the remaining victims were from other countries including Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Holland, France and even Germany.
TL;DR: they call it propaganda, kiddo.
-Author brings up Nazis-
-Comments section dissolves into surprisingly calm discussions about politics and religion-
I don't know how this happened, but I must harness this...
6424504 so are they nearing the end of the story, or just this preticuler story arc?
6423453
Yup. People tend to completely forget about the destruction of the Americas, followed by the Spanish Inquisition.
Spaniards, Brits and later the Yanks really put good examples for the Nazi to follow later.
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Duh. I hardly think you're in any position to be calling people 'kiddo' given one of your more recent blog posts.
Thing is, at what point does it stop being propaganda and start being hypocrisy?
I want more on that Nazi. How does he react to the Reich, the thing he's devoted his life to, being destroyed?
This is a mixed bag for me. On one hand the Nazis were a rather 'goal' oriented bunch. They pretty much held to rigid beliefs. But holding on for seventy years? With no outside news of the war. That strains credibility.
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I consider any effort to claim the nazies were not 'christrian' as revisionist history.
Yes a tiny number of the leadership apparently had a fascination with pagin ideas, but the majority of Nazi Germans believed themselves to be 'good' Cathlics and even had the Pope behind them. (Again apologist revioniats who can't concive of THEIR favorite religion being part of something evil, deny this)
It would be much healthier for the world, if religious people were forced to realize that something as evil as Nazi Germany, was the natural result of centuries of 'good Christian' beliefs and perhaps those beliefs were the root cause of the evil, rather than an exception,
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Okay I'll go straight to the point: Nazism was the natural result of thing such as arrogance and hatred.
And I consider any effort to pose Christian belief at the base of he nazi Germany an atheist conspiracy theory.
Ps then following your same logic the communist dictatorship in Russia at that time was the natural result of atheist beliefs.
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Well the British did invent the idea of the concentration camp during the Boer wars so...
As far as these Nazi holdouts goes -- eh, it's okay. It fits with the hold 'weird world' setting. Them hanging on to the old guard beliefs is a *bit* of a stretch, but like they said in the story, generally something has to happen for a group to change radically. Famine, disease, invasion, -- something. Things costing along all hunky dory make change very slow.
As far as the *worst* , subjectively, that humanity has to offer I'd go and put my vote for the Aztec. If there ever was a culture that really needed a good obliteration, it was them.
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Why the Mexica in particular? An objective analysis doesn't leave them but as early imperial Romans, minus horses and metal, fighting wars with weapons specifically meant to not be lethal, and with the most benign form of slavery ever seen in a slave-mongering civilization.
I particularly remember the legend of Tlahuicole as a showcase of Mexica honour: this guy was a Goliath from Tlaxcala, a nation that the Mexica allowed continued freedom in respect to their fierceness. In a Garland War, Tlahuicole was eventually captured. The Emperor Moctezuma II offered him his freedom, but Tlahuicole had been dishonoured by being captured and refused. The Tlaxcaltecan Goliath was thus offered to be the general in a campaign against the Purepecha, which he did accept. For the following two years after the campaign (pre-columbian civilizations didn't believe in drawn-out wars) , he was an honoured guest in the Imperial Court, which only ended because Moctezuma then ordered him to either accept Aztec citizenship or to return home. He opted to die in ceremonial warrior sacrifice: to receive a macuahuitl sans-blades, and be put in continuous one-on-one combats until he couldn't defend himself. He apparently killed eight, otherwise incapacitated twenty, and then had the gall to ask for a priest to properly open his chest and extract his heart.
Carl found space Nazis, and of course he gave them an atomic bomb.
6423381
Apparently Fluttershy is now a crackhead then, because not even A-bombing an alien city that may not have been hostile to begin with stopped her from feeling sorry for them.
You are now picturing crackhead Fluttershy.
6424442
What, the Reichskonkordat? It was made as an attempt to try and stop the already bubbling persecution of Catholics in Germany, and got thrown out just a few years later by the same pope. Bad that they went along with it in the first place, of course -- but then, nearly all of Europe was bending over backwards trying to appease Germany at the time.
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Please, tell that to the large swaths of Catholics the Nazis murdered, especially in Poland. Hitler appealed to Christians at first because they happened to be the dominant religion and no dictator ever got anywhere by alienating the overwhelming majority of his country right out of the gate. As soon as the nationalism kicked in, he started gutting churches just like he gutted every other rival ideology that he couldn't nationalize and/or dared criticize the state.
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Are those suddenly mutually exclusive descriptors? I mean we are talking about the freaking Nazis. I'm pretty sure they rank pretty high on both propaganda and hypocrisy.