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Richard Stern would later go on to fight in WW2 for the US against the Nazi regime, and once more be decorated for valor.
That little twerp Nazi and his buddies ended up destroying the fuck out of that country.
We gonna let the same twerps do the same to ours?
It looks to me like the Nazi is smiling.
A nervous smile, I think, of the kind you get when you end up in a slightly surprising and embarrassing situation.
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.
"Lemme tell you about fighting a two-front war. You may need to know this in the future."
Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.
— Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism
That is the least intimidating Nazi I’ve ever seen.
You should see that ICE agent who peed himself shooting a priest in the face. His eyes are big and he stands like he is about to drop everything and run.
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