Honestly, he's probably some dumb fucking kid who thought he could join the new party with the fancy uniforms and feel tough. Probably was assigned to this store thinking "Ah, one of The Jews(tm), a weak and cowardly bunch! I can't wait to be intimidating!"

And then a combat vet comes out with his decorations and says, by his stance and his expression, "I've killed much better men than you, boy. You'll have to try harder than that."

And the Nazi kid's thinking at the moment, thus, ends up as something like, "Wow, lmao, I guess this is more than I was thinking it would be??"

Doubt it changed the kid's Nazi convictions. But he was probably less sanguine about the universal 'weakness' of Jews in the future.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago

"Lemme tell you about fighting a two-front war. You may need to know this in the future."

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.

— Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism