i will die on the hill that the original Nazis were just as silly as our modern versions. Hitler based his plans for the invasion of Russia partly on cowboy novels written by a con-man.
As a Dutch person I'm pretty sure my dad read those novels as a kid. It was a real trip hearing you talk about those in the context in which you did.
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My mother and her family did, too, in Lithuania. They were all the rage.
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it's my favorite insane history factoid
imagine being some field marshal retreating from Stalingrad when Hitler mails you a box of YA cowboy novels
