• Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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    6 months ago

    Nobody’s disagreeing that he worked for the military, they’re just saying he wasn’t the leader of the nazis.

    Who’s spreading disinformation, when you’re making up new titles like “Hitler’s chief of staff” and “Chairman of NATO” about a person who’s been dead for 40 years?

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      6 months ago

      Provide links. I did!

      Heusinger served as inspector general until 1961, when appointed chairman of NATO’s Military Committee—the organization’s senior military officer and chief military adviser to the secretary general. Source

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        6 months ago

        I think people are mostly criticising your choice of words, The chairman of the NATO military committee does not equate to the chief of NATO. And simply labeling him as “chief of staff” implies that he was part of the executive, and not a military commander.

        I could more accurately claim that Hitlers “chief of staff” Vincenz Müller became the Commander of the Soviet East German military. At least half of that statement is actually true.

        There is no reason to participate in historical revisionism. We are still fighting against the"clean Wehrmacht" theory. Misrepresenting the white washing that’s already occurred just gives ammunition to those perpetuating it.