Democratic Exodian Territories wrote:Rusozak wrote:WW1 is under-portrayed in games a movies in general, and in those cases I have yet to see one where Germany or the central powers were portrayed as the obvious bad guys.
As for WW2, well... Nazi Germany was obviously bad, and it's a little bit of a sensitive subject to show the perspective of the same side that was responsible for the death camps, especially if it's a game where you're supposed to kill the enemy of whatever side you're playing. WW2 may not be so relevant to later generations, but to people that went through that shit, be it as soldiers or children in occupied countries, a game where you get to be the Nazis is like someone who lost a loved one on 9/11 seeing a game where you play as Al Qaeda.
The Nazis were very much evil, but most of their soldiers weren't. When it comes to movies, Fury show the Wehrmacht fighting to protect their homeland, both the American and German sides valiant in the final battle, and even a young German soldier showing mercy to the American main character. In Dunkirk, a German soldier who presumably wants nothing to do with the Nazis sneaks into the group, posing as a British soldier and attempting to get to a place in the line. Books like All The Light We Cannot See portray German soldiers as just as patriotic as the Americans, but still maintain the Nazi officers as villains.
Even real-world battles, in particular the Battle for Castle Itter reveal the Wehrmacht even collaborating with U.S. soldiers to fight the Nazi Waffen-SS.So were all the Germans bad? Absolutely not.
This is true. However, when people see a Wehrmacht uniform, they don't think about the occasional act of integrity by German soldiers or the instances where uniformed Germans resisted their Nazi overlords. They see the army that rampaged across Europe and devastated the continent. But then again, I suppose making those figures of resistance more commonly known would be the point of making anything centered on their perspective.
