That there are good reasons to thoroughly discredit Nazism and that Nazism has been thoroughly discredited are unfortunately unrelated. It is purely wartime propaganda. And those wartime propaganda needs suppressed recognition of the evils of Marxism - frex George Orwell could not get Animal Farm published until after the war had ended.
As a slightly wider example, ask people to name fascist governments from WWII. Very, very few will think to add Greece to that list, because Greece was one of the Allies.
Be fair - ask people to name Allied countries from WWII, and see how many remember Greece. Deep down, most people really have a sense that the entire peninsula ceased to exist after the battle of Corinth. (There is a remedy, however! Show them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfqOrMlwOjs )
Hmm - I'm probably in the wrong part of the world for that.
"Tonight we will retreat and dine in Thebes, having destroyed many Nazi panzers!"
The Greeks themselves are somewhat embarrassed that there were no Greeks fighting at Thermoplyae in 1941; Aussies smug that we are tougher than the Spartans.
But I would have thought the Greek resistance would be remembered, given they make it into a James Bond book.
That there are good reasons to thoroughly discredit Nazism and that Nazism has been thoroughly discredited are unfortunately unrelated. It is purely wartime propaganda. And those wartime propaganda needs suppressed recognition of the evils of Marxism - frex George Orwell could not get Animal Farm published until after the war had ended.
As a slightly wider example, ask people to name fascist governments from WWII. Very, very few will think to add Greece to that list, because Greece was one of the Allies.
Be fair - ask people to name Allied countries from WWII, and see how many remember Greece. Deep down, most people really have a sense that the entire peninsula ceased to exist after the battle of Corinth. (There is a remedy, however! Show them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfqOrMlwOjs )
Hmm - I'm probably in the wrong part of the world for that.
"Tonight we will retreat and dine in Thebes, having destroyed many Nazi panzers!"
The Greeks themselves are somewhat embarrassed that there were no Greeks fighting at Thermoplyae in 1941; Aussies smug that we are tougher than the Spartans.
But I would have thought the Greek resistance would be remembered, given they make it into a James Bond book.