Appalachian Nationalist
Banned
I was very unclear with my original challenge.
What I meant was something more along these lines: you don't have to have Nazism as it actually existed be a mainstream ideology within the democracies, but you have to have the public's perception of Nazism be positive.
Like, Neo-Confederates usually don't care much for slavery and disagree with Confederate ideology, but they don't care because they reinterpret the history of the Confederacy to focus on the things that do matter them. I'm kind of picturing a scenario in which you have something like the modern Alt-Right's opinion on the Nazis, but mainstreamed. Where they ignore or downplay things like lebensraum and racial supremacism but emphasize social conservatism and anti-communism.
Another way to put it would be, "How do you get a world in which Nazi Germany not only has a Lost Cause-like strain of pop revisionism, but it's also considered socially acceptable to support it?"
What I meant was something more along these lines: you don't have to have Nazism as it actually existed be a mainstream ideology within the democracies, but you have to have the public's perception of Nazism be positive.
Like, Neo-Confederates usually don't care much for slavery and disagree with Confederate ideology, but they don't care because they reinterpret the history of the Confederacy to focus on the things that do matter them. I'm kind of picturing a scenario in which you have something like the modern Alt-Right's opinion on the Nazis, but mainstreamed. Where they ignore or downplay things like lebensraum and racial supremacism but emphasize social conservatism and anti-communism.
Another way to put it would be, "How do you get a world in which Nazi Germany not only has a Lost Cause-like strain of pop revisionism, but it's also considered socially acceptable to support it?"