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[Meta] Why Do You Think There are Barely Any -Boos for the Imperial German Army? (self.ShitWehraboosSay)

ThaddelReichsminister für Wehrkraftzersetzung が 投稿

It's something I was thinking about lately, do you think there's a certain reason why we have so little (to my knowledge at least) apologists for the Imperial German Army on Reddit, apart from a few Smug Revisionist Pricks© ? Even those usually focus on the break-out of the war, not the fighting itself.

Is it just because the Stab-in-the-Back-Myth is so thoroughly disproven, even compared to all those myths about WWII?

Or is it just because myths like Langemarck aren't as well known today?

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Also, loving the You have horses! What were you thinking!? subtitle of the sub!

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[–]elos_ 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

I study ww1 and let me tell you there is absolutely no shortage. MUH STROSSTRUPPEN. It actually is thoroughly ingrained in popular history. It doesn't matter that the French did it in 1915, the Ruskies in 1916, and the British in 1917. The Germans did it in 1918 and lost horribly so they for some reason are given credit for inventing small unit tactics.

[–]ThaddelReichsminister für Wehrkraftzersetzung[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

Do they turn up on Reddit though? I don't really see it anywhere. maybe only in niche subreddits?

[–]elos_ 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Oh sweet summer child.

Yes it's everywhere but people don't recognize it because:

  1. WW1 isn't talked about often

  2. People don't think it's even controversial so it doesn't get a lot of exposure

But lemme tell you if I had a nickel for every time someone on reddit said some variation of those Germans broke trench warfare with super advanced infiltration tactics I'd be rollin in it.

[–]ThaddelReichsminister für Wehrkraftzersetzung[S] 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

You could post it here, if your liver can take it!

[–]asbestosisfunny 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Because being a wehraboo kinda includes it, seeing as to the majority, the Wehrmacht is an organic progression of the Reichswehr.

Muh prussian junkers and all.

[–]ThaddelReichsminister für Wehrkraftzersetzung[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

As a pedantic note, as far as I know it was only officially known as Reichswehr under the Weimar Republic, wasn't it?

But anyway, yeah I guess it kind of belongs to the same group, although you still don't see a lot of it.

[–]burning_phoneix 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Probably because general interest in WWI is far below that of WW2.

[–]Swardington [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Just last week I passed what looked like an apartment building where on one of the balconies there was what looked like an Imperial German flag.

But I'd say the reason there doesn't seem to be a lot of WWI German apologists is because in pop culture WWI was fought almost accidentally because of alliances, and Germany wasn't more at fault than the Allies. Plus it's just not as popular as WWII, so apologists don't feel the need to constantly defend Imperial Germany's honor.

[–]Repulsive_AnteaterCurtis LeMayMay was the real Hitler [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

There are -boos for just about every period of German history. Seems like Prussia/HRE/Nazi Germany/German Empire etc are always one of the most popular factions in any Paradox or Total War game or any game like them.