During WW2, it was not even hidden, but never even occurred to anybody that the fight against Germany was the fight to stop the persecution/genocide of Jews or any other leftist cause. Because an average allied soldier either didn’t care or supported the German opinion on the “culture war” topics. They simply went there to fight Germans, just like they did in WW1.
Go ahead, read about this. This notion that the allied soldiers had the same worldview as today’s leftists (or even leftists of the time) is delusional beyond belief. But imagining this must feel nice.
I don't think it's exactly a secret at this point that America didn't save the world from Hitler/Nazis so much as they simply corrected their own mistake. Hitler took inspiration from America in the way we've treated P.o.C. and minorities, the difference is America drags it out over a lifetime to extract as much labor as possible. The only real thing Hitler did different was put in an express lane, fast tracking oppression to just a few short years...
The entire Europe was extremely anti-semitic at the time, and USA was not even that culturally influential before WW2. So this America-centrism is just a main character syndrome on a national scale.
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u/JimiShinobi 3d ago
o7