Neanderthaland wrote:It was actually just proving a point that having a Black guy working for you doesn't axiomatically make you not racist. With a Black Wehrmacht trooper held up as an illustrative example.
But of course even that tiny amount of nuance is immediately overlooked.
Well, that. And Sai showing up.
The Not-sees did have recruiting drives in some unexpected places, Africa being one of them afaik. The UK was colonizing the shite out of Africa and India and etc. at the time so the fact that some Africans and Indians and etc. signed up and joined the Wehrmacht doesn't surprise me. The Not-sees held no immediate territorial ambitions outside of Central/Eastern Europe whereas the UK was trying to hold onto it's pirated "empire" by any and all means necessary. It's a weird allegiance by our standards but those non-white Wehrmacht guys probably saw the Not-sees as the lesser of two evils?! I've no idea honestly. The existence of non-white recruits in German military formations during WW2, and their reasons for joining the German military, isn't much talked about outside of historians.