Tacitus, writing about germania while have never left italy
What do you know Nazis were wrong
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Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
So that was the knowledge Kane wanted
glorkon@lemmy.world 1 month ago Just look at them. Goebbels - club footed little dwarf. Göring - fat drug addicted fuck. Himmler - little bespectacled man, no chin, less muscles than Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters and none of his charisma. Hitler himself - weird stache, weird hair, short build, halitosis and bad teeth. None of the prominent Nazis would have passed the requirements for joining the SS. Well, maybe Heydrich, but that guy reportedly had a high pitched voice like a eunuch…
If that pathetic bunch were the real Germans, boy am I happy that I am a German with Slavic ancestors.
Gladaed@feddit.org 1 month ago
Weird to spread their ideals in that way.
PugJesus@piefed.social 1 month ago
tbf, Tacitus also did praise the Germanic tribes, but he did so as a means of contrast with his own ‘decadent’ Roman society which had gotten too used to ‘civilization’ and ‘poor people having rights’; while Tacitus imagined the ‘barbarians’ as being unsullied by such ’niceties’.
… in part, yes, because they lived in a frozen waste that no one would voluntarily go to, lmao.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 month ago
The noble savage stereotype has had a long life, I see xD
PugJesus@piefed.social 1 month ago
In some ways, Tacitus made the blueprint for it, even. He relays a lot of ethnographic data impartially, but whenever he starts talking about values of the vague ‘barbarians’ in contrast to Rome, they conveniently are the mirror image of ‘decadent civilization’ and in agreement with all of Tacitus’s critiques of Roman society.