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@eden-anderson Oh no!  Why are you scrapping the project? 🙁

About your question for @seekjustice, she’s talking about WWI, so these Germans aren’t Nazis. 😉  I actually don’t know a whole lot about the politics of WWI, and I’m on the side of the Americans just because I’m an American, but I know war politics is very complicated.

I can actually give you a little defense for the Germans in WWII, though.  They didn’t know how evil Hitler was when they “elected” him.  He tricked everyone by promising them relief from the horrible (really horrible) conditions they were in after the Great War.  Once he was in power, they were in over their heads, and though many (I don’t know the percentage, but it was a lot) of them didn’t agree with his politics, by then it was too late and they had to fight for him, because otherwise their families would be in danger.  You could argue that they should do what was right anyway, but isn’t protecting your family right?  So, it was a hard question.  So yes, the Nazis did evil, scary things but not all Germans at the time of WWII believed what they were told to believe, and of course the men on the front lines were not the ones doing the dirty work persecuting the Jews and others back home.

So basically, I think you can feel sorry for them.  While not condoning their actions, you can see why they did certain things.

And if you look at the Russians, whose side we were on in WWII, they were pretty bad too.  Probably even as bad as the Germans.  But it was politically advantageous for us to fight on their side, so we did.  It was only a few years later that we switched and fought against them in the long-lasting Cold War. 😉  So our side wasn’t all that great either.

Make sense?  (SeekJustice, sorry for kind of answering your question.  You can elaborate on WWI, though, since I don’t know much about the politics of that. 😛 )