| ▲ | dmurray an hour ago | |
This overeggs a bit the idea that Hitler "lied about where it came from". Hitler openly admired the Roman empire and alluded to Germany being the spiritual heir to it. Look at the neoclassical architecture, or the German imperial eagle, or even just identifying as the Third Reich, where the first Reich was the Holy Roman Empire. If he was misleading about the links with Rome, it was in retconning the founders of Rome as Nordics or "Aryans" rather than the sallow-skinned Mediterranean people everyone else assumes lived there at the time. | ||
| ▲ | WarCommons an hour ago | parent [-] | |
Fair point, thank you for reading the article! | ||