[Ragnar]

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This is not a reply regarding multi-player. If you want to play a German soldier, then be my guest. I can’t see anything wrong with that. If the decision is based on a moral question than I will question the fact that Americans are killing Americans.

However I will give a comment to the political part of your post, because I have seen similar opinions earlier in this forum.

We can talk about the depression or the Treaty of Versailles. We can also talk about the facts that many Germans were forced to join some kind of nazi organisations in order to maintain their rights as German citizens. But it’s irrelevant. You have to bear in mind that Hitler was elected by a major part of the German people, and that the major part of the German people in that period is responsible for giving this man the power he needed. Hitler became a dictator in a “democratic” way. It was the first time a “democracy” declared war against other countries.

Supported by his people, Hitler conquered Austria and Czechoslovakia. The German people were exited. They were celebrating when Poland surrendered, and they saluted the bombs, which were dropped over Britain. They weren’t concern at all about the consequences that their military offensive created. It wasn’t before the table turned that they started to dislike the nazi-regime.

I am not saying that there are pro nazi people in this forum, I am sure there isn’t. On the other hand I am convinced that some of you doesn’t understand what people in Europe went through during the War. I could have written pages after pages about the terror in the occupied countries in that period, but I wont. I just want you to understand that the War wasn’t about brave men on some glorious battlefields were both parts were equal. It was about terror and about men and women who were determined enough to stop it.