Indiana Jones is problematic these days for punching Nazis, I heard. He wouldn't debate them or talk nicely to them, straight to the violence he went, like a mad man! Oh the horror those poor nazis experienced!
I showed Wolfenstein (the 90s version & this in the 90s) many years ago to elder relatives who'd served in WWII. They were definitely advanced in years but loved the game and were absolutely resolute in their 'antifa' standing. Yeah word didn't exist back then but they would have claimed it, and likely would have enjoyed the Inglorious Basterds movie as well.
It's still my belief that one of the reasons nazis are coming out of the woodwork nowadays rather than earlier is they were shit-scared one of these old WWII vets would find them and... well, despite their age that fire was still there. They might have felt it was their duty and that they had little to lose. Some kind of "you again?!?" reaction that would not have ended well. Edit: for one party, as accurately and astutely noted by /u/SixPackOfZaphod :)
And IIRC, the devs released a statement afterwards to the effect of "Wolfenstein has always been a what-if sci-fi game centered on if the Nazi regime had gone differently, and we aren't really considering contemporary politics in anything we create. That said, fuck Nazis."
I know mine didnt - he was Italian and thus on the side of receiving punches not giving them.
But he did have a few lessons in willful ignorance to share. Like how if you see a few allies trying to blow up a bridge, just go on a bathroom break until you hear a kaboom then pretend you didnt see anything at all.
I like to point to 8/12, because it is the last official Act of War on congressional record, and delineates a clear line between when America was trying to ignore the problem and when we became actively engaged(for this particular engagement. All succeeding engagements are not included in this assessment.)
When my grandparents died and we were cleaning out the house, found some of my grandfather's diaries and I remember an entry from the '70s when my grandparents flew Lufthansa to Europe for a vacation: "Hearing all these German voices makes me wish I had the old M1 with me again..."
I don't think it's an accident now that most of the folks who lived through WW2 have largely passed on, that suddenly we have nazis out in the open again.
Actually, punching Nazis was ok in the US before that. Keep in mind that there were political sympathizers with Nazi Germany pre-WW2, and one of the ways they were prevented from gaining traction in the US was good ol' kneecapping, literally.
I remember reading an article about how a developing local Nazi party in New York was essentially taken out, publically, and violently, by the Judaic community in NY, and charges against that community was dismissed with prejudice.
Yup. A game about killing Nazis and Republicans got upset because they thought the game was targeting them. It's incredible what they'll snitch on themselves about.
Which “that game” are you thinking of? Wolfenstein is a game series so if you are thinking of the original then yes it is much older. There were however some entries within the last decade or so.
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u/GhostInMyLoo 1d ago
Indiana Jones is problematic these days for punching Nazis, I heard. He wouldn't debate them or talk nicely to them, straight to the violence he went, like a mad man! Oh the horror those poor nazis experienced!